Carrie Lam, a Roman Catholic, was born in Hong Kong and comes from a working class background. 1982, as a civil servant, the Hong Kong government funded her one year-diploma course at Cambridge University, where she met her future husband, Chinese mathematician Lam Siu-por.
In 2004, she was ap...
Filmmakers, Joe and Anthony Russo – the directing duo behind the highest grossing film of all-time, Avengers: Endgame – premiered Hollywood’s first ever all-Arabic action film this week at the Venice Film Festival. Making his directorial debut, Matthew Michael Carnahan transforms a New Yorker...
Youssef Chahed was born on Thursday 18 September 1975 in Tunis, Tunisia. He studied to become an agricultural engineer at the National Agricultural Institute of Tunisia, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1998. He then joined the Institute National Agronomique Paris-Grignon in Franc...
Raja Nicola Abdul Masih was born in the Masalma neighbourhood of Omdurman in Sudan in the 1950s. She is a member of Sudan’s Coptic Christian minority which represents 4.5% of the population (1.4 million people). She studied at Cairo University and graduated with a Law degree in 1980. After gr...
Nadine Njeim was born in Baalbek District, Lebanon, in 1984 to a Lebanese Christian father and a Tunisian Muslim mother. Her multi-faith upbringing taught her tolerance and understanding from a young age. “I am saddened when I read posts attacking other religions,” she says, “I am lucky that I ...
by Ali Almandalawi
Ali Babacan was born in Ankara in 1967. He graduated first in the Class of 1985 from Ankara College. In 1989, he received a Bachelor of Science Degree (BS) in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, where he ranked first among the grad...
by Ali Almandalawi
Born in 1958, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen spent the first 13 years of her life in Brussels, where her father Ernest Alberchy was one of the first European civil servants from the establishment of the European Commission in 1958. She was raised in Christian household that...
Carrie Symonds, who has been dating Johnson for over a year and is 25 years his junior, is a former Director of Communications for the Conservative Party, works in PR and is the daughter of Matthew Symonds, co-founder of The Independent newspaper, and one of the newspaper’s lawyers Josephine...
