Sawsan Kamal

Sawsan Kamal
سوسن كمال
Sawsan Kamal, February 2019
Member of the Council of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 2018
Monarch	Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Prime Minister	Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain
Parliamentary group	independent
Constituency	Second Constituency of the Capital Governorate
Personal details
Born	Sawsan Mohammed Abdul Rahim Kamal
Nationality	Bahraini
Alma mater	Arabian Gulf University
Occupation	clinical psychologist

Sawsan Mohammed Abdul Rahim Kamal (Arabic: سوسن كمال) is a Bahraini politician and psychiatrist. She was sworn into the Council of Representatives for the Second Constituency of the Capital Governorate on December 12, 2018.

Education

Kamal obtained a Bachelor of Medical Sciences from the Arabian Gulf University in 1994, followed by a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery with honors from the same school in 1995. She earned a Certificate in Psychiatry from the Arab Board of Health Specializations in Damascus, Syria in 2003.

Career

Kamal worked as a counselor psychiatrist at the Ministry of Health from 1997 to 2017. She founded her own consultancy firm in February 2017, joining the National Association for Education and Training Support in Bahrain that April. That December, she earned a certificate from the International Academy of Peace Ambassadors in Amman, Jordan. She was appointed to the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Health Committee in June 2018.

Council of Representatives

Kamal entered politics by running in the 2018 Bahraini general election for the Council of Representatives, in which she ran for the second district in the Capital Governorate. She won 1,585 votes in the first round on November 24, good for 48.25%, and defeated Faisal bin Rajab in the second round with 1,894 votes for 70.62%.