Nujoom Alghanem (Arabic: نجوم الغانم) (born 24 October 1962) is an Emirati poet, artist and film director.

Alghanem was born in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and was raised there, being the fourth child out of eleven siblings.

After getting married, becoming a mother, and starting a career as a journalist, Alghanem decided to travel to Ohio to study with her husband.

[2] There are recurring themes in her poetry including longing, solitude, death, human suffering, loss and the hardships that one goes through each day.

[2] She is on the board of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and is a regular participant in the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.

Alghanem's 2015 film Nearby Sky is a documentary about Fatima Ali Alhameli, the first Emirati women to have her camels be a part of local auctions and beauty pageants.

Both Nearby Sky and her earlier film Sounds Of The Sea have to do with an aging generation being nostalgic about their past.

Alghanem said, "People greatly inspire me: their world, stories, frustrations, hesitation, confusion, sadness, happiness, pain, passion" and "I search for those characters, learn about them and from them; I live with them and always try to enter their unknown world, explore the unspoken and find out about their special moments.

[4] Sharp Tools: Honey, Rain and Dust: Sounds of the Sea: The Young Fighter: Hamama: Almureed: Dr. Omnia Amin, a professor at Zayed University in Dubai, says this about Alghanem's poetry and work,"Nujoom Alghanem is one of the strongest modern Emirati poets who rose in the early 1980s in the Persian Gulf region.

[1] Co-founder of the United Arab Emirates branch of Women in Film and Television, Michelle Nickelson, said, "Nujoom could be considered a UAE national treasure.