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Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic: عبد الفتاح الجندلي). Abdulfattah Jandali was born in a Muslim household to wealthy Syrian parents, the youngest of nine siblings.
[3] [6] Jobs' biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, was a student from an elite family in Homs who met Jobs' mother, Joanne Schieble, while pursuing a PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He was adopted a few months after his birth by a couple from California. According to Isaacson, Jobs had little interest in his Syrian heritage.
Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) [1] [2] is an American novelist. She has written six novels and studied English at University of California, Berkeley , and languages and literature at Columbia University .
The Lost Father is an autobiographical fiction novel written by American novelist Mona Simpson.It is the sequel to Simpson's first novel, Anywhere But Here, and based on her real search for her father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali.
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s.
Jandali may refer to: Jandali language, an Australian language; Jandali, a Syrian surname; notable people include: Abdulfattah Jandali, father of Steve Jobs; Malek Jandali, pianist and composer; Mona Jandali, novelist; Jandali, Azad Kashmir
Bassma Al Jandaly was born on 30 August 1977, in Leningrad in the Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg), to a Sunni Muslim Syrian family. [2] She has three sisters and one brother; her father Hassan Jandaly was a high ranking General in the Syrian army. [3]
Mona Jandali, aka Mona E. Simpson (b. 1957), novelist, English professor, sister of Steve Jobs, and cousin of Bassma Al Jandaly and Malek Jandali. Riad Jarjour, former General Secretary of Middle East Council of Churches; Steve Jobs (1955-2011), former CEO of Apple Inc., brother of Mona E. Simpson, and cousin of Bassma Al Jandaly and Malek Jandali.