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= Mary Sampas =

Mary (Boutselis) Sampas (August 16, 1917 - January 12, 2011) was an astonishingly prolific Massachusetts newspaper columnist. Her writing career spanned seventy-five years and covered both Lowell and trips to Europe to cover the Kennedy-De Gaulle talks in Paris and the Kennedy-Krushchev meetings in Vienna. and wrote "color" pieces from there and later from Greece, where the then Mrs. Kennedy vacationed. . She was also an

Born in the Acre in Lowell to John and Eftiheia (Papleacos) Boutselis, she started writing for The Sun before she graduated from high school, covering Greek events in her senior year of high school.

Writing Career:
She began writing for the Sun, where she met her future husband Charles Sampas. Her career as columnist began when she started writing the Gal Friday columns

She wrote under four different pen names in The Sun. Gal Friday, Pertinax,

Death:
Mary Sampas dictated her last column for the Lowell Sun from her hospital bed in Saints Medical Center in Lowell, Massachusetts

There are four women that I want to set up Wikipedia pages for:


 * Khadija Ahmed Barkad --- an entrepreneur from Djibouti, a small country in northeast Africa. Djibouti is very dry. Ahmed Barkad created a water filtration company called ZamZam that supplies clean drinking water throughout the capital.
 * Isatou Ceesay Isatou Ceesay is a Gambian environmentalist known as the "Queen of Recycling." She started an organization called “Women’s Initiative Gambia”. This group helps women collect plastic and recycle it into salable products.

= Safiya Al Bahlani = Safiya Al Bahlani (born 1986 - ) is an Omani artist, graphic designer, disability rights activist, and motivational speaker.

Biography
Born with multiple physical disabilities —  short forearms, no hands, a deformed left knee, and a short right leg stump — Safiyah was adopted at the age of three by Sabah Al Bahlani, a single mother. Sabah had been trained in the United States as a Community Health Educator and was working at the time for the Ministry of Health in Oman in a program to educate parents about children with disabilities.

Sabah took Safiyah to the United States with her when she went to continue her studies. In the United States, Safiyah  was given intense speech therapy. She had speech difficulties and when tested was found to be totally deaf in one ear, as well as tongue-tied. Safiyah also had surgery to make it easier for her to wear a prosthetic.

In school, Safiyah excelled in the arts. She had been drawing since she was a child, but it was when she turned fourteen that she realized that she want to become a professional artist.

After graduating from the American International School of Muscat, she continued to study graphic design. When she moved to Jordan in 2007, she chose to change her interest of study to animation, but she continued to paint and held her first solo art exhibit in Jordan with 38 pieces that she had collected in February 2010.

Safiya returned to Oman and was looking for a job when she met an Omani fashion designer. Together they created an exhitbit of 40 paintings and 20 dresses based around a theme of His Majesty's Annual speeches  Safiya felt that doing oil and acrylic painitings of the designs was not creative enough; she embellished the paintings with embroidery and traditional Omani tassels.

= TED Talks =


 * "The chosen: Sabah al Bahlani and Safiya al Bahlani " — TEDx Muscat   — November 23, 2013
 * "Challenge is Your Weapon; Safiya al Bahlani" — TEDx Institut Le Rosey — January 25, 2014


 * Yasmeen Alshara’ay --- is a Yemeni teacher who enrolled in UNICEF’s Rural Female Teachers Program to become a teacher. She teaches in the most remote parts of Yemen.

Arts and Culture[edit]
Nashua has an active art scene. Not only does the city have a yearly art slae that takes place in Greely Park,

Notable people from Nashua do include James Aponovich, major artist