Yasseen

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Montego Bay, Jamaica
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Laurence Sterne and Harold Nicholson

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March 2012


I was born in Jamaica,completed school and university in England and then joined my Egyptian father in Cairo.

I have spent my working life in radio, TV and newspaper journalism, in the Middle East: in Egypt, Oman and Dubai.

I started writing my memoir, "Emigrating Home," as a challenge when some friends in Muscat decided to have a writing competition to see what we could all do in the space of a month.

I took the memoir more seriously, completing it while working as a subeditor(copy editor)on a newspaper in order, believe it or not, to keep myself awake. (My greatest talent is to be able to fall asleep anywhere any time.)

My working day started at 2pm, but the reporters' copy did not show up on my computer screen before 5pm. One day I fell a
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You go out in the very early morning for a picnic on the Monday after the Egyptian Easter Sunday.

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Published on May 19, 2013 06:25
Average rating: 3.92 · 12 ratings · 5 reviews · 1 distinct work
Emigrating Home

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