A woman believed to be the Arab world’s first Jewish ambassador, Houda Nonoo, was named this week as Bahrain’s ambassador to Washington. And according to her former headmaster, the British-educated envoy was the perfect student.
Houda Nonoo, educated in Britain
Ms Nonoo, 43, came to london aged 13 to better her education. she boarded at Carmel College, oxfordshire, together with her younger brother, Abraham.
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen, her headmaster at the time, told the JC: "She and her brother were both really sweet, serious and lovely people. they were very respectable and, I would say, perfect students. Houda was a really serious and responsible girl and she developed into a lady of the same calibre.
“She was strongly Jewish and always said she was happy in Bahrain.”