UAE’s first sports library opens

Facility receives timely boost from Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Sports Academy

The Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Sports Academy (FBMA) has announced that it has contributed a number of books to the Abu Dhabi Ladies Club (ADLC) on the completion of the first dedicated sports library in the UAE — The Fatima Bint Mubarak Sports Library.

Under the patronage of Her Highness Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF), FBMA made the contribution so as to align with the stated mission of its education and research department to fill the educational gaps that sports in the UAE.

The library has been designed to make information easy and accessible to the Abu Dhabi community, as the FBMA strives to inspire an upswing not only in the number of women practising sports but also the number of women in the sports industry.

The library boasts a number of volumes on sports journalism, photography, marketing, sponsorship, physiology and more. exist in