Ghenwa Yehia

Ghenwa Yehia
United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Mental Health Columnist for the Khaleej Times

2025-2026

Yehia writes a column for Khaleej Times wknd magazine, where she covers mental health issues and how they intersect with everyday life. Her fellowship project work will be a multi-part series exploring the emotional and ethical impact of “grief tech”. She will investigate how AI-powered simulations of the deceased are reshaping the way we grieve and what that means for mental health.

Ghenwa has experience in content creation, public relations, media relations, event planning, editing, and project management. In addition, she has published and award-winning children’s book.  She holds a Master of Science degree, Summa Cum Laude, in integrated communications and strategic public relations from Virginia Commonwealth University (USA), and a Bachelor of Journalism degree with Distinction from Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada).

 

Topic

Ghenwa proposes a four-part written feature series titled Capitalising on Closure: The Mental Health Cost of AI-Simulated Goodbyes to be published in Khaleej Times. The project will explore the rise of AI tools that allow people to “talk” to deceased loved ones. Trained on voice recordings, messages, and videos, these tools are marketed as sources of comfort to help mitigate the mental health impact of grief, but the commodification of grief raises important questions, such as whether these tools can support healing.