Ibrahim al-Urayyid

Ibrahim al-Urayyid was born in March 1908 in Bombay, to a Bahraini father, a pearl merchant, and an Iraqi mother. He spoke English, Persian and Urdu, and learned Arabic only on arriving in Bahrain in 1922. A teacher of English in Manama, he worked at the customs, at Delhi radio and then for the oil company, presided in 1972 over the constituent council that drafted the country's first Constitution, and later served as roving ambassador. He died at the end of May 2002.

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