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Alice Samaan

A Woman of Many Firsts

BymaroonfrogJanuary 28, 2019February 4, 2019

“I grew up in a culturally diverse neighbourhood of Manama. Our family is Christian and my father, who was originally from Iraq, came to Bahrain as a young man in 1932. My mother’s family had moved to Bahrain several years earlier from Turkey, when...

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#81

BymaroonfrogJanuary 27, 2019January 28, 2019

“When I was 17, I did work experience with my aunt in Islamabad, at the United Nations (UN). The work environment was inspiring and interesting. At the UN, my eyes were opened to development projects. Although I was born and brought up in Pakistan...

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Elizabeth Dadd

Feed the Need volunteer

BymaroonfrogJanuary 27, 2019January 28, 2019

“I am Australian and originally came to the Island to work as a flight attendant 13 years ago. After meeting my Canadian husband in Bahrain, we ended up staying and starting our family here. Bahrain is home to us. We are perfectly placed here;...

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#95

BymaroonfrogJanuary 13, 2019January 13, 2019

“As a solidier in the Indian army, my father-in-law was posted to Iraq during the First World War. By 1919, after the War had ended, he made his way to Bahrain finding work as a boat mechanic. At that time Bahrain was in a...

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#90

BymaroonfrogJanuary 13, 2019January 13, 2019

“I was born in 1947, in a house not far from the Catholic Church in Manama. My name is Essa (which is Arabic for ‘Jesus’). My mother always told me that my name was suggested to her by an Iraqi Christian neighbour who lived by the...

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#46

BymaroonfrogJanuary 13, 2019January 13, 2019

“It’s Eid today, but unfortunately I’m working. I work as a bag packer at a supermarket and I am rostered for the morning shift. My wife works at another supermarket as a supervisor and she has a shift this afternoon, so unfortunately we will...

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#25

BymaroonfrogJanuary 13, 2019July 18, 2019

“For the first fifteen years of my life I lived in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco and I have lovely memories of my life there. My German-born father has always had an eye for art and beauty, so our weekends were spent exploring galleries and...

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#60

BymaroonfrogJanuary 13, 2019

“I am from Hyderabad, India. I have been in Bahrain for seven months. I work for a cleaning company, as a street cleaner around Budaiya Highway. In India, I used to work as a field hand. I got the chance to come to Bahrain through an agent. I...

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#96

BymaroonfrogJanuary 13, 2019January 14, 2019

“I am in my 90s. Maybe I’m 93 or 94. I’m not sure. When I was a young man, I had a variety store in Manama souq where I stocked a big selection of wool. The shop was there for about fifty years, until...

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#28

BymaroonfrogJanuary 13, 2019January 14, 2019

“I am from Islamabad, Pakistan and my family has lived in Bahrain since 2008. Inspired by a similar group that exists in the UAE, in 2012 I started a group called Special Families Support (SFS) for families of children with special needs in Bahrain....

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Alice Samaan

A Woman of Many Firsts

#81

Elizabeth Dadd

Feed the Need volunteer

#95

#90

#46

#25

#60

#96

#28

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