Nancy Khedouri

{{Short description|Bahraini politician, businesswoman and writer}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | birth_date = London, United Kingdom | name = Nancy Dinah Elly Khedouri | office = Representative in the National Assembly | term_start = 2010 | term_end = present | successor = | constituency = }}

'''Nancy Dinah Elly Khedouri''' ({{langx|ar| نانسي دينا إيلي خضوري}}; born 1975) is a Bahraini politician, businesswoman and author. She has been a member of the National Assembly of Bahrain since 2010.

==Early life and family== The Khedouris family are one of the Jewish families in Bahrain, a family of importers of tablecloths and linens. Her direct family is third generation in Bahrain, and she is the cousin of Houda Nonoo, the Bahraini Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2013.<ref name="alarabiya retracing">Ismaeel Naar, [https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/02/26/Long-history-of-Jewish-Bahraini-contributions-to-Gulf-economics-and-politics.html Retracing Bahrain’s Jewish contributions to Gulf economics and politics], ''Alarabiya.net'', 26 February 2017</ref><ref>Michael Slackman, [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/world/middleeast/06bahrain.html In a Landscape of Tension, Bahrain Embraces Its Jews. All 36 of Them.], ''Nytimes.com'', 5 April 2009</ref> In her 2007 book ''From Our Beginning to Present Day'', she documented the history of Bahraini Jews from the first settlers (late 1880s) to present days.<ref name="alarabiya retracing"/>

==Political career== In 2010, Nancy Khedouri became a member of the National Assembly of Bahrain.<ref>Souad Mekhennet, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/09/one-persian-gulf-monarchys-surprising-embrace-of-jews/ One Persian Gulf monarchy's surprising embrace of Jews], ''Washingtonpost.com'', 9 June 2014</ref> She has worked on smoothening relationships with Israel by appearing publicly with political figures such as Yisrael Katz.<ref>Ben Caspit, [https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/09/israel-bahrain-saudi-arabia-iran-yisrael-katz-parliament.html Bahrain goes public with shifting stance on Israel], ''Al-monitor.com'', 18 September 2017</ref> In April 2017, she represented her country at the World Jewish Congress.<ref>Justin Cohen, [http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/welcome-to-the-jew-nited-nations/ Welcome to the Jew-nited Nations], ''Timesofisrael.com'', 26 April 2017</ref>

==Publications== *''From Our Beginning to Present Day'' ({{langx|ar|بداياتنا و حتى وقتنا الحاضر}}), Manama, Bahrain, 2007 {{ISBN|978-99901-26-04-4}} <ref>Jay Levinson, [http://www.jewishmag.com/120mag/bahrain/bahrain.htm Book Review], ''Jewishmag.com'', January 2008</ref>

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