Introduction

Ms. Salwa Yousef Al-Moayyed holds a BA in journalism from Cairo University in 1971. She joined as a journalist in the Ministry of Information and became the first Bahraini journalists professional in the history of Bahrain. Salwa Al-Moayyed worked as a professional journalist for 12 years and then chose to work as a free journalist in all the Bahraini newspapers and some Arabic newspapers and magazines. As a writer she focused on the subjects of humanity, social, educational and political aimed at developing the status of the Bahraini citizen and the progress of Bahrain in all fields.

Starting from the seventies she is been involved with social welfare in Bahrain. Being a creative artist and a author, she spoke about family planning and with a group of intellectuals founded the Bahraini Family Planning Association in 1975. She joined in the Bahrain Society for Child Development and is now a member of the Board of Directors of the Society. She also established the first orphanage in Bahrain which is now under the supervision of the Ministry of Social Development. She is been active in demanding a personal status law with women's associations since 1983. She is also recognized for the establishment of the first national school in Bahrain, Ibn Khaldun. She was one of its 50 founders and then served as a member of its board of directors for ten years. Today it is one of the largest private national private schools in Bahrain.

The History of Art

She began learning oil painting under the tutelage of Raquel Doran Klieg, a teacher from Spain, in 1983. This continued to 1990, when Raquel left Bahrain.

Her early exhibited paintings leaned more toward impressionism in technique and content. They were rich in warm but striking colors. A few Bahraini abstract artists observing her work at the time noted her idiosyncratic use of light and shadow and my ability to communicate through color.

The Ministry of Information bought an early painting depicting the Khamis Mosque. The painting today hangs in the Bahrain National Museum.