مكتبة أوكة OUKA Library: من نحن

(36) years of experience in the field of children's and adolescents' literature.
(9) international awards: (4) in Japan, (3) in Jordan, (1) in Iran, and (1) in Lebanon.
(48) Illustrated children and adolescents books.
(12) Iraqi and Arab children's magazines.
(32) animation films for children.
(27) Books for adults.

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2019 A Jury Member of the Arab children’s books publishers forum - Sharjah.
2017 A Jury Member of the Etisalat Prize for Children's Book - Sharjah.
2012 A Jury Member of the Etisalat Prize for Children's Book - Sharjah.
2012 Member of the Arbitration Committee of the Sharjah International Book Fair.

2019 Munich International Library (IYL) The International Youth Library - Germany - Selects (3) of my illustrated children's books to be part of its Mobil Gallery traveling through Europe for (3) consecutive years.

2012 The IBBY Bill of Honor selects Ibn Battuta as part of the Excellence in Graphics field.
2011 Munich International Library (IYL) The International Youth Library - Germany - Selects the book (This is how colors change), which is written and illustrated to be part of her annual guidebook (The White Ravens).

2014 Al Manal Forum "disability and children's literature. The Three Openers "- Sharjah.
2013 The Conference of IBBY International Council of adolescents’s Books for Central Asia and North Africa - Sharjah.

Initiatives

2020 Republishing low cost iconic children stories with Limited Edition for the use of Iraqi children only in cooperation with OUKA Center.
2019 The first and second OUKA Children's Drawing Competition, on Facebook, (20)day in which (240)children from (16)countries painted (864)paintings. The link of the drawings which participated in the second OUKA competition :

2017 A Founding member of the Chibayish Library For Kids, a community-based initiative for children in the marshes of Iraq through which a library of 1500 books, encyclopedias and other observatories was created with a personal effort. The community built a sumerian house (mudeef) for the library. Later on and because of the family supervising the library unfortunate circumstances, the library moved to a private school and some of the books went to Taqwa’s house who was the most involved child with the library. Where the children come and read.

2016 My book and reading - where children and their families read to each other; for a full year and the most important achievement was winning the award of the pregnant mother and unborn baby by(mother Fatima: Al Saeedi and the unborn baby Yusuf Ahmed Bin Said) from Morocco, and children from Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain.

2014 A Guide to Children Literature in the Arab Countries. It has its own page on Facebook and a website under construction on the net

Workshops of my preparation and presentation:

2017 Designing and presenting a workshop to train Omani children's book illustrators. A book was published and distributed under the title "Strange Questions" in cooperation with the Children's Laboratory of Beit Zubair Foundation, Muscat.
2016 A workshop for specialists in the field of children's and adolescents' culture in Iraq.
2015 Designing and presenting a workshop for children - Oman International Exhibition for Child’s Supplies and Books - Muscat.
2005 Participated in the UNESCO workshop in cooperation with BIB in Bratislava, Slovakia.
2004 Participated in the UNESCO workshop for authors, illustrators and publishers of Arab children's books - Lebanon.

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