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Except that Aberdin is Iranian.
Is she now? Or would it just be handy for some projects if she were?
My mistake. She is American born Muslim, raised until an adult in Saudi Arabia.
Abedin was born on July 28, 1976,[7] in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Syed Zainul Abedin (1928–93) and Saleha Mahmood Abedin.[4][8] Abedin is of Indian and Pakistani descent, and has a sister, Heba, and a brother.[9]
At the age of two, Abedin moved with her family to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), where she was raised and lived until returning to the United States for college....
Both of her parents were educators. Her father, born in New Delhi (India) on April 2, 1928,[10] was an Islamic and Middle Eastern scholar of Indian descent, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and then in 1978 founded the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma_Abedin#Personal_life