Bahrain will always have a place close to the heart of Banu Mushtaq, the 2025 winner of the International Booker Prize ... in more ways than one.
When the social activist, lawyer and author of Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, visited her daughter Lubna Hijab, also a lawyer, in Bahrain in 2022, she suffered a heart attack while out for dinner with family members.
Without the prompt response of Bahrain’s health service she may not have survived to win the vaunted international literary prize.
Ms Mushtaq and her family, who have lived in Bahrain for more than 20 years, recollected the ordeal in an interview with the GDN during her recent visit to the kingdom. “On June 1, 2022, we went out for dinner in Adliya, and afterwards, my mother-in-law collapsed,” said her son-in-law Noor Mohammed.
“It was a very scary moment but the ambulance showed up quickly, taking her first to Salmaniya Medical Complex and then to the Mohammed Bin Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa Cardiac Specialist Centre.
“It was phenomenal to see how rapidly the medical personnel responded and guided us through the process. That night, she had a heart surgery during which they placed a coronary stent, saving her life.
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