Noura is a Lebanese-born Emirati artist whose first experience in artwork started in the early 1990’s while she was a high school student in Dubai. She dabbled in pencil and charcoal drawing as well as silk painting.

During her university years in Beirut, she was drawn to the hand crafted clay pottery markets and began painting on clay. Using the same acrylic medium, she used on clay, she began in the late 1990’s to produce paintings on paper and canvas.

Her work is all abstract, with human figures being a prevailing subject in many of her paintings. Colorful compositions are also among her works. She also writes poetry and enjoys translating poems into colorful artwork. Noura lives and works in Abu Dhabi.