Linda in June of 1979

The photograph below was taken by Linda's ex-husband (my former stepfather) Nadir, at the offices of the business she started in Egypt, Allied Resources and Consulting Services (ARCS). The picture is from late June, 1979. The thing in my mother's hand is a baby bottle. She was feeding mys sister Aziza, who was only a very few months old at the time.

ARCS was a business services company that offered temporary office space, secretarial services, phone and telex (fax machines and the internet had not yet been invented), and other services to businesses. It was located at 3, Midan El Sheikh Youssef Square, Garden City, Cairo. This is the place where Nadir got his first notion that he could be a photographer; he took the first photographs for Coca Cola Egypt while working there.

The business did not last long. In 1981 my mother went on to work with Mounir Neamatallah on a company that he was founding; the name of the new company was Environmental Quality International (EQI).

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