Lamees ibrahim biography of christopher

          Lamees Ibrahim, author of The Iraqi Cookbook, was born in Baghdad where she lived until moving to London in the s to complete a PhD in Pathology at Kings....

          DR LAMEES IBRAHIM

          It was a day like any other; an aeroplane landed in London carrying an excited young woman from Baghdad who was living her dream of taking up her place at King’s College Hospital Medical School, without realising that London would become her home for the next forty years and counting.

          This recipe is taken from The Iraqi Cookbook, the first of its kind to be published in Europe.

        1. This recipe is taken from The Iraqi Cookbook, the first of its kind to be published in Europe.
        2. The Iraqi Cookbook|Lamees Ibrahim?
        3. Lamees Ibrahim, author of The Iraqi Cookbook, was born in Baghdad where she lived until moving to London in the s to complete a PhD in Pathology at Kings.
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          6. After graduating with her PhD, Dr Lamees Ibrahim enjoyed an accomplished and varied career in medical science and teaching, both in the UK and abroad. Meanwhile, her four children were growing up in London enjoying Iraqi cuisine at the dinner table, with each dish enriched with tales about Lamees’s childhood and the country that she hoped to return to one day - a land that her children had never seen.

          In , after over a quarter of a century away, Lamees returned to Baghdad for a visit, where her few remaining family members welcomed her back to her old family home and into a world of memories of times past. Sadly, the vibrant and colourful life that Lamees remembered had been blud