Noura Al Noman became a writer at the age of 45. In 2010, she published two picture books for toddlers, Cotton the Kitten and Kiwi the Hedgehog.
Noting the huge deficit in books for young Arabs, she wrote Ajwan, one of a handful of science fictions novels in the Arab world. It won the Etisalat Best YA Novel Award in 2013. Book two, Mandaan was launched at the Cairo Book Fair, and she is now working on the third book in the series.
Al Noman launched Makhtoota 5229, the first Emirati publishing house dedicated to producing Arabic content in science fiction and fantasy.
Her latest publication is Shamsa and Sushi.