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teaching, that she could help again at the kuttab. In 1938 when she was about 25 she moved the school to a nearby building as her reputation grew. Her kuttab accepted both boys and girls in the summer and in the winter. They would have study sessions twice a day for five days each week with a very early session before sunrise on
Fridays. Initially the students would be divided by gender with boys on one side of the room and girls on the other but in time they attended on different days. The parents of girls had to be persuaded that education was of value and even then some only wanted their girls to read the Quran but saw no value in them being able to write. It was not easy to be a woman and a scholar and she was admired for breaking down prejudice. Qatar was behind the curve led by Kuwait and Bahrain for improving Arab education. In 1951 Qatar opened the Khalid Bin El Walid Boys School.
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transferred to the boys' school. Some parents withdrew their daughters but many other joined and another building had to be included. Two more women teachers were employed for what was named the Banat El Doha School (Daughters of Doha School) and
Mahmoud was the country's first woman Principal. This gave Mahmoud personal challenges as the school was offering access to a better education than she had ever enjoyed. She had to study privately so she could keep up with the student's ambitions.
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education. When she was seven she began the task of memorising chapters of the Quran at a school run by Sheikh Hamid Bin Ahmed Bin
Mohamed. She was taught by a woman named Mariam and her commitment grew. The children would learn for four hours in the morning and then after going home for lunch, a prayer and a siesta. They returned to the
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Mahmoud was born in 1913. Her mother was Nayela Bint
Mohamed Darwish and her father was Mahmoud Youssef Al-Jaydah and he dived for and then sold pearls. They were strict Muslims and her mother taught her the Quran. Her father encouraged her to study as he believed that boys and girls required a good
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The Amina
Mahmoud Al Jaida Primary Girls school in Doha is named for her. In 2018 the artist Iman al Saad staged an exhibition called "Words of Gold" using works from the Quran. Iman al Saad dedicated all the profits from the exhibition to charity as she had been inspired by her mother Amna Mahmoud
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Her school became known as Amna
Mahmoud's school and she began to teach not only the Quran but also how to read and write. The popularity of the school grew. The Minister of Education tried to raise the question of whether there could be a school for girls. Quran's ruler would not permit it. It is
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Mahmoud began teaching when she was fourteen because she had done so well in learning the Quran. She taught women who were older than her including her sister and her aunt. The students had to come her home to be taught because it was forbidden for girls to go to another house without an escort.
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For four years from the age of eighteen she was a wife in
Bahrain. Her husband was related to her father and she had two children before she returned. She had not taught in Bahrain but it is likely that she saw that Bahrain had schools for girls. She had to persuade her sister, who was still
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In 1953, Amna
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More schools were created for girls and initially
Mahmoud was the principal of a few of them. Many of her students became teachers and in the 1970s her school gained a library. She retired in 1976.
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said that the ruler was more pliable after hearing others talking about the good work at Amna
Mahmoud's School. Religious advice was taken and it was decided that girls could be educated.
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