General Meeting talk by Sohail Husain

We had a very interesting speaker for our May General Meeting. The audience was totally engaged in the subject he presented.

Sohail was born in 1951 to mixed-race immigrant parents who lived in London. They worked in London’s famous street markets. Leaving school he studied Geography at the University of Nottingham and was awarded a PhD there in 1976.

His started his career as a University Lecturer for 13 years. Then for 15 years with a NGO dedicated in creating safer communities, and then became an adviser to the United Nations working on programmes to prevent violence against women and girls.

In his retirement using his professional skills as a social scientist, he embarked on research into his family’s history which led to many amazing discoveries. Over a very long times, six years in fact, he wrote his memoirs. His account included many extracts from correspondence and other documents. Although most were in English, a proportion were in German and quotes from there were translated into English.  He outlined the talk in a very professional way and covered a great deal on his family history.  

He lives in Hampshire with his wife and two daughters and I was so pleased that Sohail accepted doing this talk for us.