Bushra Hamwi Fostok

PR Specialist & Social Media Content Strategist📍Dubai

One part PR consultant, two parts poet, Bushra is a multi-talented professional with the creativity needed to get work not just done but delivered with a cherry on top. Taking on one project after the other while living in KSA, UAE, Qatar, Libya, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and New York, she has gained 18+ year insight into business communications & new media-related issues along her personal & career paths.

Bushra holds a Professional Certificate in Communications & Reputation Management from NYU, and a Master’s in New Media & Image Management from Smart Business Academy in Sweden, she previously dropped out of the American University in Cairo in 1999 to start up a web design service initiative with a Canadian friend, with an agenda to empower youth start-ups through technology. From there, she was welcomed to join the teams behind many successful PR projects varying between CSR campaigns, government PR campaigns, healthcare, education, tourism & cultural initiatives. Some of which are: "Almaniah.com by the German Board of Tourism & Bridge Media, Dove Campaign for Real Beauty launch in GCC, Watani Campaign-The UAE National Identity Program, The 20th Anniversary of The Fall of The Berlin Wall, Arabia CSR Awards, The 40th Anniversary of The Libyan Revolution, The Cultural Projects Incubator by Syria Trust, The Government Communication Forum in Sharjah, Etisalat Reading Campaign, Al Futtaim Educational Foundation & Schools, Bourne Hall Clinic -The Inventors of IVF-, Neuro Spinal Hospital, Burjeel Hosptial". Bushra worked with your every target audience from presidential offices to schools.

Bushra is a former Hill & Knowlton team member & has acquired unique experience in front of & behind the camera while training with Al Jazeerah & co-hosting the prime-time youth talk show on MBC in 2003 "Yallah Shabab". She is currently venturing into the world of children poetry.

Her first Arabic poetry book published in 2004 in Beirut received controversial media reviews in Saudi Arabia "Who Got Eve out of Heaven" achieved notable critical success & was highly acclaimed by renowned Arab artists & dignitaries such as Marcel Khalife and Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal.

Bushra is fond of Sufi poetry, tango, hiking, Led Zepplin, classic rock & blues music. She is an avid foodie and in constant search for authentic live music venues and international cuisines hidden gems.