Fatemah Abdullah Alqahtani

Fatemah Alqahtani is a writer, artist, and university lecturer from Saudi Arabia who expresses her intellectual longing for ideas through creative practices (writing and artwork). Fatemah’s creative engagement is a search for new realities beyond traditional frameworks to generate awareness, dialogue, reconciliation, courage, and empathy. This interest has also been motivated by a personal focus on art as a metaphoric observation and a means by which personal thoughts, memories, and ideas can creatively be expressed through various mediums.


Alqahtani has lectured in the visual arts department at the PNU University in Riyadh KSA since 2012. In part, Alqahtani’s research interests include Art engagement in the discipline of Creative Arts Practice while her art artmaking reflects her identity as a Saudi artist who is influenced by a modern Islamic art movement. As an artist, Alqahtani has been an exhibiting artist since 2007, presenting her artwork in Saudi Arabia, Australia, China and Dubai, UAE.

Author's Books
 Creativity And Conservatism: An Investigation Into The Formation Of Saudi Female Artistic Identity

This book investigates the formation of Saudi female artistic identity within the context of religious and social values and customs. It proposes a theory about the uniqueness of this identity in terms of how Saudi female artists push the boundaries of creativity in a conservative culture.The book e...

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