Saeed Saeed, a features writer for The National, has been awarded a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in the UAE.
The fellowship programme seeks to improve the quality and accuracy of mental health reporting in the media and is named after Rosalynn Carter, co-founder of the Carter Centre. The National administers the programme in the UAE for the centre, which is a US-based non-profit, non-governmental organisation.
More than 200 journalists from around the world have been awarded fellowships since the programme’s inception in the 1990s. Saeed will receive training from experts and mentors in the US and support from advisers in the UAE. He will begin his year-long, non-residential fellowship this month.
Saeed becomes the tenth journalist in the UAE to be connected to the programme since The National began overseeing the award of fellowships in the UAE in 2018.
His reporting project will focus on the Arabic music scene and attitudes towards mental health within it, now that a new generation of artists are discussing mental health in their creative work and in general discourse.
He will succeed Abeer Khan, who is on staff at Al Arabiya news organisation, and has used her fellowship year to report on the emotional, social and cultural experiences of expatriate fathers from a range of communities in the UAE.
Real estate tokenisation project
Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.
The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.
Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.
The biog
Age: 23
Occupation: Founder of the Studio, formerly an analyst at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Education: Bachelor of science in industrial engineering
Favourite hobby: playing the piano
Favourite quote: "There is a key to every door and a dawn to every dark night"
Family: Married and with a daughter
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The Bio
Favourite place in UAE: Al Rams pearling village
What one book should everyone read: Any book written before electricity was invented. When a writer willingly worked under candlelight, you know he/she had a real passion for their craft
Your favourite type of pearl: All of them. No pearl looks the same and each carries its own unique characteristics, like humans
Best time to swim in the sea: When there is enough light to see beneath the surface
