Page 64 - 5th BBS Newsletter - En & Ar

Salwa Yousuf Almoayyed

Ms. Salwa Yousef Al-Moayyed is currently the first Deputy President of Bahrain
Businesswomen Society. She 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 journalist
professional in the history of Bahrain. Salwa Al-Moayyed worked as a professional journalist
for 12 years and then chose to work as an independent journalist and writer in the various
Bahraini and 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 involved with social welfare in Bahrain. Being a creative
artist and an 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 Labour and Social Development. She has been active in demanding a personal

status law with women's associations since 1983. She is also recognized for the establishment
of a private 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.

Contact Info:
Y K Almoayyed & Sons (B.S.C)

Contact: 17211211
Website: https://almoayyed.com/
E-Mail: crm@almoayyed.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/YKAlmoayyed/

Page 64 of 95