Sawsan Mohammed Abdul Rahim Kamal () is a Bahrain politician and psychiatrist. She was sworn into the Council of Representatives for the Second Constituency of the Capital Governorate on December 12, 2018.
Education
Kamal obtained a Bachelor of Medical Sciences from the Arabian Gulf University in 1994, followed by a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery with honors from the same school in 1995. She earned a Certificate in
Psychiatry from the Arab Board of Health Specializations in
Damascus,
Syria in 2003.
Career
Kamal worked as a counselor psychiatrist at the Ministry of Health from 1997 to 2017. She founded her own consultancy firm in February 2017, joining the National Association for Education and Training Support in Bahrain that April. That December, she earned a certificate from the International Academy of Peace Ambassadors in
Amman,
Jordan. She was appointed to the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Health Committee in June 2018.
Council of Representatives
Kamal entered politics by running in the 2018 Bahraini general election for the Council of Representatives, in which she ran for the second district in the Capital Governorate. She won 1,585 votes in the first round on November 24, good for 48.25%, and defeated Faisal bin Rajab in the second round with 1,894 votes for 70.62%.
