Salwa Jarrah

"[9] According to BBC News, the program "provided useful advice with the help of highly qualified experts and doctors" and addressed sexual issues considered to be taboo in the Arab world.

[11] She interviewed the Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine, the Syrian diplomat and poet Nizar Qabbani, and the Lebanese singer Sabah as part of the program.

[7][11] As part of the program, "Mosaic," Jarrah interviewed Arab literary figures, including Yahya Haqqi and Naguib Mahfouz, recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

[10][12] Jarrah, along with fellow broadcasters Madiha Rashid Al-Madfai and Huda al-Rasheed, is credited as being part of a "trend of feminisation" of BBC Arabic which, during its zenith, "cultivated the loyalty of millions of listeners in the Middle East and North Africa.

[13] Since retiring in 1999, Jarrah has authored several Arabic novels, including "Fifth Season" (2005), "Rocks of the Shore" (2007), "Insomnia" (2009), "Image in Still Water" (2014), "Narrow Doors" (2016), and "When Tales Intertwine" (2020).