“Most people don’t know this, but I was a professional footballer when I was younger, playing with the national team for seven years. I think it’s important to show that I did not fit the norms of what a woman should do or how our profession should shape up,” says Bahraini chef Tala Bashmi.
Tala, who had to discontinue professional football due to injuries, says it was while she was in her 20s that she began to explore “what I truly wanted to do.”
