Saïd bin Saïd Tabbara
Saïd bin Saïd Tabbara (, born in Beirut, Lebanon, died November 27, 2016, in Manama, Bahrain) was a Bahraini-Lebanese educator. Early life and education Tabbara was born orphaned when his merchant father died in a Mediterranean Sea storm on return from Acre, Israel, leaving his pregnant wife to raise six children, of which he was named after his father. His siblings were Sobhi, Wadad, Sania, Wafiqah, Hind, and Naamat. He attended and graduated from the American University of Beirut. Educational career Tabbara applied at first to work at Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) but was turned down due to a lack of vacancies, continuing to make an effort to move there by relocating to Basra. Finally, with the help of a recommendation letter from his sister Wafiqah Sawaf-Nairt o the Bahraini emir’s advisor Sir Charles Belgrave, Saïd Tabarra was granted permission to land at the merchant section of Bahrain International Airport (then in the Gudaibiya neighborhood of Manama) in 1940 after taking English classes in Baghdad. A teacher at the Manama Industrial School in the Department of Machinery from 1940 to 1942, he was promoted to a senior teaching post that he held until 1944, doing most of the work of