Biography
Ayman al-Zawahiri was born in 1951, in Maadi, Cairo, within the Kingdom of Egypt, to Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri and Umayma Azzam. The al-Zawahiri family was considered "upper middle class" while they lived in Maadi, Egypt, a suburb of Cairo. Ayman had a younger brother, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, and a sister, Heba Mohamed al-Zawahiri.
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