he would tell you, as he told me, I asked myself, he said, What did my grandparents and my great grandparents do to protect the forest for me?

My mother, my father, and my grandparents arrived in Greece, hunted from Asia Minor.

I understand that my ancestors were cruelly isolated in order to prevent contact between members of the same tribes and, consequently, prevent communication and insubordination.

And I knew that there was a completely other story that was taking place in the Middle East where my parents were.

I have their date of birth, and their age, and what they did in their household, if they spoke English, and that's it. That's all I know of these people.

But I had my grandparents, my maternal grandparents Joseph and Shirley, who adopted me just before my third birthday and took me in as their own, after they had already raised five children.

To some extent that is true, I doubt that my forefathers would ever have believed it possible that their offspring would one day be living in the UK and studying at Oxford but then circumstances change with time and I have always said that I owe my mere existence to Nasser's revolution.