Zeinab Badawi | My Music: ‘My love of opera started about 35 years ago and it was a case of love at first sight’

Friday, November 1, 2024

The journalist, author and President of SOAS University of London Zeinab Badawi on the music in her life

Zeinab Badawi (@jamiesimonds / Philip Bannister)

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