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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] She is also a first cousin of Steve Jobs, [4] [5] Mona Simpson and Malek Jandali. Jobs ...
[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.
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.
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
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. [3] [4] She won a Whiting Award for her first novel, Anywhere but Here (1986).
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.
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was born in 1960 in the village of Gandatu in northern Sudan, to a Sufi family. Al-Burhan studied elementary and intermediate level in his village school, and later moved to Shendi to complete his education before joining the Sudanese Military College among the 31st batch. [18]
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and Chancellor of Surrey University awarded Pengiran Muda Abdul Fattah with his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Economics during his graduation ceremony at Guildford Cathedral on 13 June 2002. [9] In 2013, he earned a PhD in international business from Brunel University London. [10] [11] [8]