Nawal is a musician from Comoros. Her music draws on traditional Comorian influences and incorporates sounds from African and Arabic culture. She plays many instruments, including the guitar and qanbūs. She sings in Comorian, Arabic, French and English.

Today known as the "Voice of Comoros", Nawal is one of the first women from her country to take the international stage as a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Nawal has self-produced both her albums, and has toured in Europe, Africa, North America, the Middle East and Central Asia. Her home is currently in Paris, France. She will release her third album most likely next year and it will be a "whole, new horizon"

Nawal El Moutawakel (Arabic: نوال المتوكل‎) (born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first female Muslim born on the continent of Africa to become an Olympic champion. She was also the first Moroccan and the first woman from a Muslim majority country to win an Olympic gold medal. In 2007, El Moutawakel was named the Minister of Sports in the upcoming cabinet of Morocco.

Although she had been a quite accomplished runner, the victory of El Moutawakel, who studied at Iowa State University at the time, was a surprise. The King of Morocco telephoned El Moutawakel to give his congratulations, and he declared that all girls born the day of her victory were to be named in her honor. Her medal also meant the breakthrough for sporting women in Morocco and other mostly Muslim countries.

She was a pioneer for Muslim and Arabic athletes in that she confounded long-held beliefs that women of such backgrounds could not succeed in athletics.