Zainab Abdul Amir

Zainab Abdul Amir
زينب عبد الأمير
Member of the Council of Representatives (Bahrain)
In office
2018–2022
MonarchHamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Prime MinisterKhalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Preceded byOsama Al-Khaja
Constituency7th District, Capital Governorate
Personal details
Born
Zainab Abdul Amir Khalil Ibrahim
Political partyIndependent
OccupationJournalist

Zainab Abdul Amir Khalil Ibrahim (Arabic: زينب عبد الأمير) is a Bahraini politician and journalist.[1] On December 12, 2018, she was sworn in as a member of the Council of Representatives for the seventh district of the Capital Governorate.[2]

Education

She holds a Master of Arts from Ahlia University, earned with a thesis on assessing press freedom after the National Action Charter of Bahrain.[3][4]

Career

Abdul Amir worked as a Senior Media Specialist in the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Works.[5][6] She also worked as a journalist for the newspaper, Al Ayam.

House of Representatives

She entered politics in the 2014 Bahraini general election, running for the seventh district seat in the Capital Governorate and earning 1092 votes for 16.97% in the first round. She lost the second round to Osama Al-Khaja, earning 1373 votes for 39.60%.

She ran again in the same constituency in the 2018 Bahraini general election, followed by international media. Representatives of Agence France-Presse, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and Alhurra attended the opening of her election headquarters.[7] In the first round, on November 24, 2018, she won 2,945 votes, enough for 49.20%, just barely requiring a second round on December 1. She defeated Afaf al-Mousawi by winning 3,092 votes for 65.29% in the runoff, the first time in Bahrain that two women competed in final contest.[8]

References

  1. ^ "المردي مرشحا وحيدا لرئاسة "الصحفيين"". Arabian Business Community. May 1, 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. ^ "رئيس اللجنة العليا للإشراف على سلامة الانتخابات يعلن النتائج النهائية للانتخابات النيابية والبلدية لعام 2018م". Bahrain News Agency. December 2, 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  3. ^ "وزير الأشغال يستقبل عدداً من منتسبي الوزارة بمناسبة حصولهم على درجة الماجستير". Ministry of Works. March 6, 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  4. ^ "الجامعة الأهلية تهنئ خريجيها بمناسبة فوزهم في الانتخابات". Ahlia University. December 6, 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  5. ^ "موفد "البلاد": أخصائية الاعلام بوزارة الأشغال زينب عبدالأمير تطيح بالتربوية عفاف الموسوي". Al Bilad. December 2, 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  6. ^ "الأشغال تكرم أربع موظفين فائزين في المسابقة الرمضانية". Ministry of Works. July 23, 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  7. ^ Abdullah, Asma (November 27, 2018). "تجربة المترشحة زينب عبدالأمير تخطف أنظار الإعلام الدولي". Al-Watan. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  8. ^ Abdullah, Asma (November 28, 2018). "زينب عبدالأمير: وصول امرأتين للجولة الثانية يؤكد وعي الشعب البحريني". Al Watan (Bahrain). Retrieved 21 December 2020.