Lamees ibrahim biography for kids

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.

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 2004, 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