Salha Obaid is an Emirati writer and novelist who published her first short story collection, Alzheimer, in 2010. The Messenger of Happiness and The iPad’s Life on the Zorba Way followed in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Her fourth collection, A White Strand Implicitly (2015), won the Al Owais Prize for Creativity, as did her novel Except Your Grandmother Was Singing (2025). She has also published the novels Perhaps a Joke (2018) and The Spice Circle (2022); the latter was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2023. Her works have been translated into English, Italian and German.