Noor Hani Ahmed Sayed Al-Tajir

Noor Hani Ahmed Sayed Al-Tajir was born in Boston on 28 October 1982, the daughter of Hani Ahmed Al-Tajir and Sakina Abdulrahman Al-Oraibi. She was born abroad while her father was studying there. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Noor. She has had asthma since childhood. The Mohammed Al-Tajir Scholarship Fund paid for her studies. She is a keen photographer whose pictures of old doors and alleys were exhibited in Manama. She studied civil engineering at the University of Leeds and graduated in 2004. She worked as a site engineer on roads, bridges and housing projects. In 2005 she married Sayed Husam Al-Qaseer. Today she lives in Tubli.