Zainab Abdul Amir Khalil Ibrahim (Arabic: زينب عبد الأمير) is a Bahraini politician and journalist.
[2] She holds a Master of Arts from Ahlia University, earned with a thesis on assessing press freedom after the National Action Charter of Bahrain.
She entered politics in the 2014 Bahraini general election, running for the seventh district seat in the Capital Governorate and earning 1092 votes for 16.97% in the first round.
Representatives of Agence France-Presse, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and Alhurra attended the opening of her election headquarters.
She defeated Afaf al-Mousawi by winning 3,092 votes for 65.29% in the runoff, the first time in Bahrain that two women competed in final contest.