Layla Fakhro

Layla Abdulla Yousif Fakhro was a Bahraini educator and revolutionary. She took part in the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman in the 1960s, under the assumed name 'Huda Salem'. Fakhro established the first school of the revolution, through which much of the top echelon of Omani government and enterprise passed, providing the basis for the modern educational system in Oman. These enterprises made Fakhro a legend throughout the Arab world in general, and the Gulf in particular. In 1983, she moved with her twin daughters Munira and Aisha to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, to spend more than ten years, establishing the Dilmun publishing house while in exile.

Layla Fakhro was born in 1945 in Muharraq island in Bahrain. She died after a long illness on 21 September 2006. She is survived by her two daughters, Munira and Aysha, and husband Ubaiydli Al-Ubaiydli.