Iman Ben Chaibah started Sail Magazine 12 years ago to document the social debates and discussions in the community. She then expanded Sail into a publishing house to grow the local content. Iman was recently appointed as the Vice President of the Emiratis Publishers Association Board.

Iman received the UAE’s Young Digital Publisher Entrepreneur Award by The British Council, was chosen as a Delegate to the International Achievement Summit in San Francisco, received the Young Entrepreneur Award from Startup Businesses magazine, and received the Arab Woman Award in Literature. Iman has also completed the Magazine Publishing Course in Yale University. She was a fellow in the Rosalynn Carter Journalism Fellowship in Mental Health to spread the knowledge about the issues in this domain through her magazine’s platform.

Iman was also part of the UAE official delegations to different book fairs and publishing conferences across the globe such as London, Paris, Sao Paulo, New Delhi, and Casa Blanca.