Amar Latif
British actor and director
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- Amar Latif (born December 1974) is a Scottish entrepreneur, television personality and professional traveller.
- By his late teens, he had 95% sight loss.
- On leaving university, he trained as an accountant, eventually becoming Head of Commercial Finance for British Telecom.
- Media career In 2005 Latif was a participant in the first series of the BBC Two documentary Beyond Boundaries , as one of a group of travellers with various disabilities on a trek of 220 miles (350 km) from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts of Nicaragua.
- He has had minor acting roles in the BBC Three comedy series It's Adam and Shelley , and the BBC One drama series Love Soup .
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WikipediaAmar Latif (born December 1974) is a Scottish entrepreneur, television personality and professional traveller. His blindness is due to the incurable eye condition retinitis pigmentosa. By his late teens, he had 95% sight loss.
Born and raised in Glasgow to Pakistani parents in December 1974, Latif gained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Statistics and Finance at the University of Strathclyde, spending part of his course in Canada at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. On leaving university, he trained as an accountant, eventually becoming Head of Commercial Finance for British Telecom.
In 2004, Latif founded Traveleyes, a travel agency specialising in tours for blind and partially-sighted travellers.
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