KUWAIT: Faten Omar has recently joined the editorial staff of Kuwait Times as a reporter. Omar has been working in the field of Journalism for more than 11 years. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in media from Jordan and began her career as a journalist in local and international news outlets.

Previously she was a reporter at Kuwait-based daily English newspaper Kuwait Times, reporter and video journalist at the daily Arabic newspaper Al-Kuwaityah, senior editor at Al-Mustagbal newspaper, local news editor at Araa an online newspaper, translator for Kuwaiti blogs, editor at Al-Madenah news, an online newspaper based in Jordan, a reporter at the Jordanian-based daily newspaper Al-Ghad, and a public relations manager at Al-Hajes company.

Faten was also a freelance contributor with Xinhua -a Chinese news agency, Raseef22 in Lebanon, Rai Al-Youm in the UK, and translator for New York Times.