Zaahirah is a passionate artist-activist, an agent of change, and a curator hailing from Mauritius, nestled in Dubai for the past 10 years. Coming from a social work background, her journey starts as a counsellor for female drug addicts and commercial sex workers in Mauritius, moving to Dubai she was involved with Children with Autism then transform and polish her skills as event and marketing and today a fulltime artist-activist, a curator and am art consultant. As a person who aspires to bring about positive changes in society, she conveys a strong message of empowerment through her art and artistic initiatives.

Zaahirah is the founder of ZeeArts, an international art organization that connects artists from across the world through a myriad of artistic projects including Art Exhibition, and Fair, Artistic Retreat program, Artist Empowerment Program, Women Art Therapy, and Art Consultancy services. Zaahirah has provided consistently impassioned support for women artists across the globe. She has been the mastermind behind an impressive array of artistic initiatives, including the Art Connects Women, an International Women’s Art Exhibition which is on its 5th Edition. She has launched the 2nd Art Book- ‘Women Artists around the World’ in March 2020, kudus to 100 female artists from 100 different countries covering Europe, Africa & Middle-East, Americas, Asia, and Oceania.

As an artist, Zaahirah has had her art exhibited in Africa, Europe, Middle East, United States, and Asia. She was the curator for World Art Dubai from 2017-2019 and has curated over 55 Art Exhibitions in UAE, Singapore, Georgia, Mauritius, France and Lebanon. she has received numerous honors under her belt for her arts and her various art initiatives. She was awarded the Leonardo Da Vinci Universal Artist Award in Florence, Italy, in Jan 2018 which was followed in February by the Femina–Women International Leadership Award in the artist category in Mumbai, India. As a Toastmaster she has been featured in 101 Artists Toastmaster by Armando Cristofori, which has been distributed worldwide.

In 2019, the art activist has established the premier MIAF- (Mauritius International Art Fair) as a multidisciplinary contemporary art fair with the aim to position Mauritius as the Art and Cultural destination In the region.

Through her project ‘little picasso’ a socially engaged artistic project aiming to project children coming deprived area access to arts. She has so far touched the heart of over 300 children from children with disability in Dubai, the refugee’s children from Tripoli in Lebanon and children coming from the pocket of poverty in Mauritius.

She is also currently advocating for SDGs, in collaboration with the United Nations -UAE, she has launched SDGs through Arts, a project that promotes the SDGs through Arts, which is in the pipeline; Also she collaborated with the UNESCO Gulf Office to launch the first ResiliArts in UAE and the Gulf.

Zaahirah’s core value has been Art should be accessible to every individual, ZeeArts has built a legacy in the creative industry in the UAE and advocate globally for female artists.