User:Barbara Dorsi

Barbara Dorsi -

Barbara was born in Athens, Greece in 1977, to a Greek Orthodox mother and a Libyan Muslim father with one brother and later one sister. She lived in Melissia north of Athens until the age of 13 when her family moved to the north east of England. She attended Brackenhoe secondary school and then went onto Kirby College in Middlesbrough where she studied A'levels. In 1996 she successfully completed the TESOL diploma (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). In the meantime she was working at KP Foods in Billingham as a machine operator. Barbara then moved to Hartlepool in 1997 where she bought her first house and she started full time employment at Samsung Electronics in Wynyard. Whilst working at Samsung Barbara helped out her mother with the new pizza take away shop that was opened on the Headland in Hartlepool. In 2002 Barbara relocated to the south where she joined the Metropolitan police force and in 2004 she joined Hertfordshire Constabulary and has been working there ever since as a police officer. A few years ago Barbara decided to write a book about her family entitled "Trapped by Islam" and in 2008 she managed to self publish it on the Lulu website. The book brings to the fore the question as to whether mixed faith marriages work, the misinterpretation of the Koran and how that leads to the abuse of women and children, it touches on the hypocracy that comes with that misinterpretation and it also includes the issues around arranged and multiple marriages using sheer law. Thats all wrapped within the story line of the book. Barbara has stated that the main purpose for writing this book was to help other women who found themselves in similar circumstatnces.