Biography
Fatima Al Qadiri (Arabic: فاطمة القديري; born July 1981) is a Senegalese-born Kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist. Fatima Al Qadiri is the daughter of Mohammed Al Qadiri, a former Kuwaiti diplomat and writer, and Thuraya Al-Baqsami, an internationally acclaimed artist and writer. Her sister is the visual artist Monira Al Qadiri. She was born in Dakar, Senegal, in July 1981, where her father was doing work as a diplomat at the time. She moved back to Kuwait with her family at age two and, at age seventeen, Al Qadiri graduated from high school in Kuwait and went on to pursue a college education in the United States. On scholarships from the Ministry of Higher Education in Kuwait, Al Qadiri briefly attended various colleges—Pennsylvania State University, George Washington University, and the University of Miami—before transferring to New York University and earning a bachelor's degree in Linguistics at age twenty-two. After college, she went to various different cities before moving back to the US in 2007.
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GenderFemale
Birthday1981-01-01 (43 years old)
Birth PlaceSenegal, Senegal
MotherThuraya Al-Baqsami
SiblingsMonira Al Qadiri
CitizenshipsKuwait
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