Ann El Safi

Ann El Safi (Arabic:) is a Sudanese journalist, writer, novelist and engineer. She has eight published works, one of which is a novel titled “It is Him” (Arabic: إنه هو).
Education and career.
Ann Adil Ya’Seen Hajj El Safi (Arabic: آن عادل يسّ حاج الصافي) was born in Sudan. However, she lives between Abu Dhabi and Canada.
In 1996, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Eastern Mediterranean University and she worked in the Abu Dhabi branch of Lucent Technologies for seven years. El Safi also studied in and graduated from the Poetry Academy in Abu Dhabi. She is also a member of the Abu Dhabi-based institution Sea of Culture. 
Currently, she works as a journalist, as well as a lecturer and trainer in the fields of development and human resource management. 
El Safi has published many articles and poems across different Arabic and Sudanese publications. For example, her articles “Breath of Words” and “Cultural Attaché”  were published in the Sudanese Al-Sahafa newspaper. Similarly, she’s published several articles and papers in the Egyptian Al-Hilal Magazine. In addition, she contributes to the monthly column titled “Sciences and Letters”, in Dar Al Hilal Publish House's magazine.
At different intervals, El Safi also publishes articles in the cultural attaché of the Saudi Al-Jazeera newspaper, and regular articles under the "Writing for the Future" column in the Algerian Ech-Chaab newspaper.
El Safi has participated in several conferences and events - that are focused on Arabic and African literature and culture- with her research papers. For example, in Al-Qareen’s 25th Annual Cultural Festival, she shared a paper titled “Modern Media and the Public Opinion: How Media in Modern Societies Affects the Public Opinion”. Furthermore, in 2019 El Safi participated in the Moroccan "Oyoon Arabic Literature Forum" with another study titled “Tolerance as a Building Block for Writing for the Future”.
In 2014, El Safi published her first novel titled "The Ark of Seduction" (Arabic: فُلك الغواية). Thereafter, she published eight more novels. 
Her latest novel, “Gypsy Bread” (Arabic: خبز الغجر), was published in 2020. In it, she discusses various topics such as: Society and the economy; the relationships between different cultures and communities, as well as the importance of tolerance, acceptance and cooperation in societies.
Contributions.
El Safi participated in many events, including: