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Nada Al Shaibani (Arabic: ندى الشيباني, is a Bahraini broadcaster and media personality^[1] living in Qatar. She chairs the Women's Committee of the Gulf Cooperation Council Media Committee and presents Sabah Al Khair (“Good Morning”), the morning show on Abu Dhabi TV.^[2]

Al Shaibani was born in Riffa. She spent her childhood in Bahrain but moved to Qatar to study Food and Nutrition Sciences at Qatar University.^[2] She grew up in a sporting family, including a mother who played handball and a father who served as a referee.

She faced significant obstacles early on in her a career as a sportscaster, remarking once that “I struggled as a Gulf woman in media, and in the sports field in particular.”^[3] She credits the support of her parents as a major factor in her success.^[4]

Al Shaibani's media career in Qatar began as producer of children's programs from 2001 to 2005, including the show Khazaz, winner of a Gold Award for the best such show in the Arab world.^[5]

She worked in the media department of the government's Qatar General Authority of Youth from 2005 to 2007. This was followed by a stint from 2008 to 2011 at Al Kass Sports Channels in 2008,^[6] where she contributed news bulletins and hosted shows on women's sports, most notably Noon (a series profiling female athletes) and Al-Dahwaniyah (daily coverage of important regional events such as the 19th Arabian Gulf Cup held in Oman in 2009). In 2011, she moved to Dubai One, where she co-hosted the variety show Swalifna Hilwa with other former anchors and broadcasters such as Maryam Amin, Marwan Saleh, and Ibrahim Al Badi.^[7]

She moved at the beginning of 2012 to Sky News Arabia, returning to sport coverage.^[8] In December 2013, she headed to Abu Dhabi TV to host the daily variety show Sabah Al Dar.^[9] In 2013, she won the Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Award for Women Athletes in the Outstanding Media Figure category.^[10] Al Shaibani was appointed in 2014 to the Media and Promotion Committee of that award, presented by Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi.^[11]

In 2015, she was appointed head of the women's committee of the Gulf Media Sports Federation.^[12] She made her acting debut in 2017, appearing in a bit part in the series Qalbi Maei, in which she played a self-referential role as an ambitious media broadcasting trainee presenting a weekly show alongside Mayssa Maghrebi.