Omar Saif Ghobash

Omar Saif Ghobash (Arabic: عمر سيف غباش‎‎; born 1971) is an Emirati diplomat and author. He was appointed Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia on 27 February 2009 upon presenting his Letters of Credence to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Ghobash authored the book, Letters to a Young Muslim (January 2017), which was written as a series of letters to his eldest son about what it means to be Muslim in the 21st century.

Between the years 1986—1989, Ghobash was educated at Rugby School, a boarding independent school for boys in the market town of Rugby in Warwickshire, followed between 1989—1992 at Balliol College at the University of Oxford, where he gained a B.A. in Law. Between 2003—2007, he studied BSc. in Pure and Applied Mathematics, in an external programme at the University of London.

Ghobash sponsors the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, in memory of his father, Saif Ghobash, the UAE's first Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who was assassinated at Abu Dhabi International Airport in 1977. Likewise, he is a founding trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction which runs with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London. He founded one of the region’s first contemporary art galleries, The Third Line, which is based in Dubai as well as The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture which supports and identifies the production, research, and distribution channels of contemporary Arab art and culture.

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