1. Tell us about yourself. (Your educational background,
family, your likes, your interests etc)
My family is a normal one that lived in Bahrain, my dad
loved languages and he was an electrician, my mother couldn’t read or write but
loved to study and made us love to read.
I was so interested in being a doctor or a teacher, and used to read
books in Arabic or English that my dad will bring back with him when he returns
from his trips; my cousin used to work in a library so she also introduced me to
Arabic novels. It was only later on that
I was introduced to classic novels and started to read them. Of course I am not a doctor, but I did fulfill
my dream to become a teacher. That didn’t
happened straight after college as I went into the wrong profession for 30
years of life. Teaching was an
experience for me, I found out how not many of our young ones love to learn,
and I found out that what we teach is not necessarily what is being practiced out
there. So I stopped teaching. I do
training from time to time just to keep my interest alive.
Well at 58 I can only remember what I did with that
education. To me Education is just a
tool so we excel in the world and achieve our goals, without having goals in
life it doesn’t matter if we are educated or not.
I am interested in art, and interested in making every
person in our country a bachelor degree holder.
With the grace of God, this will happen.
2. You are the Managing Director at Education Zone FZ,LLC.
Tell us more about it.
I mentioned above that I had spent 30 years of life doing
the wrong profession, that is because we dint have people that will direct us
to the correct career path that suits our mind and our passion, so I decided
that I will start an organisation that will save people’s time and money and
create geniuses instead of machines. That is the story of why we created this
company. Its 12 years old now, and I am
hoping that it will be 120 years old and that my kids and their kids will carry
it forward.
3. You tend to prefer women employees in your company. Any particular
reason for it?
I believe in empowering women because I believe that an empowered
woman can raise prodigy kids. A woman
that is sitting at home may not notice if her kids are clever or not, so my
ultimate reason is the future generation.
4. Being a lecturer and now a business specialist how has
been the transition?
I mentioned above that I noticed that we do not teach what
the world needs, we teach textbooks, so I stopped. How many times did we need to draw a map of a
country? And how many times did we need to do an ROI for the company that we
work for? We need instead to learn how
to communicate and how to play in a team. We need to understand people to avoid
office politics. These qualities re not
taught in colleges, so why continue.
5. How do you manage life as a mother and a successful
business woman at the same time?
This is a classic question. And now that my son is married
and has a daughter of his own, my middle daughter is pregnant and running her
life, and the little one is about to graduate I feel I managed my time very
well. Time is not material, what we do
with our time is the most important thing.
6. Tell us more about your life as a lecturer
Basically I taught while working, so I had to juggle between
family, friends, homemaking, teaching and my own hobbies; but I loved my
students and I knew why they are bored, they want to start their lives as it
was pending that piece of paper called certificate.
7. Any tips for future entrepreneurs?
Yes do it yourself, and don’t depend on anyone else, if I can
succeed any one can
8. Would you like to add anything else?
Yes, I want everyone to read the book “outliers” and try to
understand it. Its my favorite.
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