Nahda's Family Author:Madeleine Blakeley Nahda and her family live in the north of England, where she was born, and where her mum and dad work in textile mills. She is the eldest of five, and she's just started at secondary school, where she's learning French--it's her fifth language, since, besides English, she speaks Punjabi, Urdu and Arabic, which she learns at the mosque in order ... more »to read the Koran.« less