Fawzia Zainal

Her Excellency
Fawzia Abdulla Yusuf Zainal
Her Excellency Fawzia Abdulla Yusuf Zainal
فوزية عبدالله زينل
	Zainal in 2021
Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Bahrain
	In office; 12 December 2018 – 12 December 2022
Monarch	Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Preceded by	Ahmed Al Mulla
Succeeded by	Ahmed bin Salman Al-Musallam
Personal details
Born	1961 (age 62–63)

Fawzia Abdulla Yusuf Zainal (born 1961^[1]) is a Bahraini media and social activist and politician who has been Speaker of the Council of Representatives from 12 December 2018 to 12 December 2022. Zainal is the first woman to lead Bahrain's parliament, and the second woman to lead a Gulf-Arab parliament after UAE's Amal Al Qubaisi.^[2]

^ "Bahrain". Parline: the IPU’s Open Data Platform. 5 July 2018.
^ Naar, Ismaeel (13 December 2018). "Fawzia Zainal elected first woman Speaker of Bahraini parliament". Al Arabiya. Retrieved 26 December 2018.

[1] "Bahrain". Parline: the IPU’s Open Data Platform. 5 July 2018.

[elected-2] Naar, Ismaeel (13 December 2018). "Fawzia Zainal elected first woman Speaker of Bahraini parliament". Al Arabiya. Retrieved 26 December 2018.

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