Asian Power Couples
Baroness Zahida Parveen Manzoor & Madassar Manzoor
Baroness Zahida Parveen Manzoor CBE is an English businesswoman and public appointee,
who was elevated to the House of Lords in 2013. She served as the Legal Services Ombudsman
for England and Wales and has held a number of senior Public Appointments. Zahida was born
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and moved to England when she was four years old. She became a
nurse before attending the University of Leeds (1983) and receiving an MA from the University
of Bradford in 1989. She became a Lecturer before moving on to hold a number of senior
positions in the NHS and then the regulation of Legal Services. She married Dr Madassar
Manzoor in 1984.
Jamila & Reginald Massey
Jamila Massey is an Indian-born British actress and writer. Jamila has had a long career on UK
television and radio. She is possibly best known for playing Auntie Satya in the long-running
radio soap The Archers, Jamila Ranjha in Mind Your Language, and Neelam Kapoor in EastEnders
and she appeared in Coronation Street in February 2010 as one of Sunita’s aunts. As well as
acting, Massey has also co-authored several books with her husband, writer Reginald Massey.
Reginald Massey was born in Lahore, then in British India, and now lives in Britain. He is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Society of Authors and an authority on the
culture, religion, music and dance of India. He has written for papers such as The Times and The
Guardian and has been a critic of The Dancing Times for nearly four decades.
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