[Rummyfan]

The back story, as it were, begins 32 years ago in Kalamazoo, Mich., where Ms. Abedin, who declined to participate in this article, lived until the age of 2. Her family then relocated to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where she lived until returning to the States for college. She attended George Washington University. Her father, who died when she was 17, was an Islamic and Middle Eastern scholar of Indian decent. He founded his own institute devoted to Western-Eastern and interfaith understanding and reconciliation and published a journal focusing on Muslim minorities living in the diaspora. Her mother, a renowned professor in Saudi Arabia, is Pakistani.

No date-of birth given...

Did she graduate from GW? In what?

Mother a renowned professor in Saudi? I didn't know women in Saudi were allowed to go to school past a certain age, much less be professors....

No details about the death of her father and his interfaith understanding project sounds a little bogus doesn't it?

It just gets curiouser and curiouser.....

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Mother a renowned professor in Saudi? I didn't know women in Saudi were allowed to go to school past a certain age, much less be professors....

Especially not Pakistani women. The renowned professor line is unlikely to say the least.

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Mother a renowned professor in Saudi? I didn't know women in Saudi were allowed to go to school past a certain age, much less be professors....

Women can attend university in Saudi Arabia, but classes are segregated. Indeed, a majority of recent Saudi university graduates may be women. The professors who taught the women would naturally be women themselves. That's my understanding anyway.

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Mother a renowned professor in Saudi? I didn't know women in Saudi were allowed to go to school past a certain age, much less be professors....

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