Deeba Salim Irfan

Irfan was born in Aligarh. Her family moved to Iran, where she went to school in Kerman, but returned to India when the English schools closed down after the Iranian revolution.

She studied for three years at Our Lady of Fatimain Aligarh and then completed schooling from Summer Fields School, New Delhi, India. After that she went to Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) to study economics. After her graduation she returned to Delhi and studied programming. She worked as a programmer before returning to AMU, for an MBA in Marketing.

She worked in direct marketing with Tata Press Database Services and then in Advertising and Event management with Percept Events. After moving to Dubai she worked at Communiqué Advertising as a brand manager.

Irfan has published two books, the novel Urma in 2012,[2] and the poetry collection Charcoal Blush in 2016. Urma was translated into Urdu and was nominated for an award by Urdu Press Club.

Irfan is the founder of the International Young Author Awards.[3]

Family

She married businessman and filmmaker Irfan Izhar in 1998 and moved to Dubai. The couple has three children.

• Faheem, Syyada. 2015. "A Feminist Study of Deeba Salim Irfan's Novel Urma". Research Journal of English Language and Literature, 3(4). 393–397. Available: http://www.rjelal.com/3.4.15/393-397%20SYYADA%20FAHEEM.pdf