Alia Al Shamsi
Alia Al Shamsi is an Emirati author. She is the Cultural Programming Manager at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Life
Al Shamsi is an Emarati Italian. She was born in Dubai in 1982. She gained a degree in photography from Durham University in 2008.Al Shamsi graduated with a photography degree in 2014 from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Four years later she was awarded a master's degree from Durham University.
In 2019, she was the Acting Cultural Programming Manager at the Louvre Abu Dhabi art museum.
In 2021, Harpars Bazaar magazine decided to arrange for six women to be given mentors. Six leading women achievers were chosen and Alia Al Shamsi was one of them. It was said to be an exercise in "women empowerment". She was asked about "women empowerment" and she said that the important idea was empowerment and there was no need to give it a gender. The May 2021 issue of Harper's Bazaar Arabia was devoted to this demonstration. In 2021 she was profiled as a female leaders of note in the MENA region by Entrepreneur magazine.
In 2024 she was still at the Louvre Abu Dhabi as the Cultural Programming Manager. file:Alia Al Shamsi ELF x [NLA - The Gulf Crossroads Panelists.jpg|thumb|left| At the UAE's National Library and Archives in 2023]