retained until 2009. She also founded the Arab Network of Women in Science and Technology, and served as its president for four years. My journey in life is very interesting, she said. I was focusing on becoming a doctor and practicing as a psychiatrist. Recently, I found myself attracted to something different: history and culture. Having achieved her goal in opening the museum, Ghubash is not content to rest and revel in the glory. She is already working on her next project to compile an encyclopaedia of women of the United Arab Emirates.