Lina Saad

Lina Saad’s debut cookbook, ‘Land of White,’ won a World Gourmand Cookbook Award, 2016. Ramadan Express is her second book. Lina Saad was born and lived in Sierra Leone, West Africa, until she left for Lebanon to attend school in Beirut at the time of the Civil War. At eighteen she moved to London to study for a BA in Hotel Management at Westminster College. After graduating, she opened the acclaimed ‘Alicia,’ a Lebanese Restaurant on London’s Warren Street in the year 2000 which she ran for several years. Lina now lives in West London where she is a full-time author and recipe developer. She is married with two children.