Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo ( ar, إبراهيم داوود نونو, he, אברהם דוד נונו, also known as Abraham David Nonoo, born: 1960 ) is a

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

i businessman. He sat in the appointed upper house of the Bahraini Parliament's Shura Council between 2001 and 2006, the first and only

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

member of the council. He is the current CEO of the Basma Company and president of the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC) The Nonoo family is originally from

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is han ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

having moved to Bahrain over a century ago along with hundreds of Jews from Iraq who sought economic opportunities there, but continued to speak the Basrawi dialect. In 2006, Nonoo financed repairs to the country's only synagogue.

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The Basma Company
Living people Bahraini Jews Jewish Bahraini politicians Members of the Council of Representatives (Bahrain) Bahraini businesspeople Bahraini people of Iraqi-Jewish descent 1960 births Sephardi politicians {{Judaism-bio-stub

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