Shihab Ghanem (Arabic: شهاب غانم) (born 1940) is an Emirati engineer, administrator, poet and author.

He then obtained a double degree in Mechanical and Electrical engineering from Aberdeen University in Scotland in 1964.

[5][12][13][14] Ghanem's 22 prose works include: Industrialization in the United Arab Emirates (in English, Avebury, U.K., 2002), Bayn Madinatain (Biography of his father in Arabic) (2008), 1500 English Proverbs with Arabic Equivalents (Express Printing, 2015), Al-Fatihah (in English co-authored with his son Dr Waddah Ghanem, Patridge, Singapore 2016)[citation needed] Shihab Ghanem was awarded the Tagore Peace Prize in 2013 from the Asiatic Society based in India for his "significant contribution to the development of Human Understanding towards peace".

[18] He was the recipient of the Rashid Prize for Scientific Excellence in 1989, the Ibha Literary Club poetry prize from Saudi Arabia and The Dubai Kairali Kala Kendram award for literature (both in 1996), as well as the *Al Owais Prize For Innovation & Scientific Research in 1999. he has also been Honoured by the Minister of Culture and Tourism in Yemen and the UAE Society of Engineers in 1999, and the Minister of Culture in Tunis in 2000.

His maternal grandfather advocate and novelist Mohammed Ali Lokman (1898–1966) was a renaissance figure in Aden and established the first Arabic and first English independent newspapers there.