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Jawad Al-Bahrani
Mr. Jawad Ibrahim Ahmed Al Bahrani was born in Zanzibar Island, which is now part of Tanzania. He was born at the area known as Mkunazini in the stone town in a small house that faces Sunni Madrass...view moreMr. Jawad Ibrahim Ahmed Al Bahrani was born in Zanzibar Island, which is now part of Tanzania. He was born at the area known as Mkunazini in the stone town in a small house that faces Sunni Madrassa School. He got his education at the Mnazi Moja Zanzibar government school. He joined the school in 1944 to 1948 and then transferred to Mashimoni Primary School to complete his studies. He left school by his own and joined the African wharf age at the Zanzibar harbor as a fender-making boy. He then was transferred as seaman in the Commander Hall boat, which was in charge of the African Wharfage. He then left African Wharfage and joined Port and Marine and also as a seaman in a pilot boat. In 1953, he joined a ship (MV Mombasa), seeking adventures as a high-sea seaman. He was in the same ship when Sir Edward Twining, the governor of Tanganyika, went to open the Mtwara harbor in 1953. And then he joined one of the local schooners by the name of Rosy, owned by Messer Fazal Bhanji.
In 1961, he joined Zanzibar Electricity Board as an engine attendant in the Saateni power station. In 1964, he got married to Miss Saida Allbdalla Ali Al Shaibani, and the same year, God blessed them with their first child, who his father named as Naqeeb. In 1968, he opened his photo studio by the name of Studio Tropicana in Zanzibar near Majestic Cinema. In 1971, he was arrested and detained for four months by the revolutionary government. In 1972, he was again arrested with so many other young Arabian and Asian youths when the first Zanzibar president was killed by an Arab army officer. In 1975, he opened a first-of-its-kind audio cassettes recording shop, selling musical audio cassettes. In 1975, he left Zanzibar and went to Bahrain to his elder brother, looking for a better and secure life for his family.
In Bahrain, he got a job as a time keeper in a Swedish company building prefabricated houses. In 1976, he left Bahrain and went to Dubai and got a job in United Color Films, a company dealing with photo film processing and printing. And then he was transferred to a sister company, Middle East Film Production Company in Ajman, UAE. In 1977, he left Ajman and went to Oman and got a job in the Oman Television as a film cameraman for filming news and documentaries. He then became a documentary film director and produced his own films, and one of his films won the first prize in AGCC Bahrain Film Festival in 2000. The title was Nature in Oman. In the same year, he was retired, and till this day, he did not work anywhere and became an author, writing classical-story novels.view less
Books by Jawad Al-Bahrani
Tales from Arabian and Persian Deserts Tales from Arabian and Persian Deserts Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5