She grew up in Ohio and Jordan.

I grew up in Latakia, which is a little sleepy city on the eastern Mediterranean.

She was raised in Switzerland and from an early age began competing in a variety of sports.

It was during family visits that Agha, who grew up in London, got to know her cousin, Amjad.

She converted to Islam at the age of 16 in 1988 after being brought up as a Catholic.

After all, I'm one of the green guys I grew up with hippie parents in a log cabin.

Early life The daughter of John Lewis, she was born in Wolverhampton, but was brought up in Bridgend, South Wales.

Growing up in the countryside of Valparaíso, Chile, Pabla was taught by her grandmother from a young age about the earth and its natural remedies.

I grew up at a time when iconic actors from Kuwait, Syria, Egypt used laughter to unite the region, just as football can.

Our neighborhood was full of large families, where fathers were the heads of households, so I grew up seeing my mother as a divorcee in a patriarchal environment.

Whenever a tragedy strikes there, the process is almost always the same family and friends come together to care for the deceased, dressing them as best as they can to prepare them for their journey onward.

And I can only tell you that as a scientist, I grew up in southern Brazil in the mid '60s watching a few crazy guys telling us that they would go to the Moon.

This one was very unexpected because, you know, I grew up with the scientific worldview, and I was shocked learning how much of my life is governed by irrational forces.

As a child studying these eternal masterpieces, Bach's music would intermingle with the singing voices of Muslim prayers from the neighboring Arab village of the northern Kibbutz in Israel where I grew up.

When I was a little girl and I grew up in a wealthy community it was an upper middle class white community, and it had all the trappings and the looks of a perfectly nice, wonderful, great life.

And for me China I started photographing it four years ago, and China truly is a question of sustainability in my mind, not to mention that China, as well, has a great effect on the industries that I grew up around.

Between the death of Elvis Presley and that of Michael Jackson were about 32 years. I was born and grew up between them.

Carmen Lorena grew up on a coffee plantation estate about three hours from Bogotá, but she thinks the city life is not for her, she prefers the countryside where she will stay after finishing her studies. Photo by Mauricio Romero, used with permission.

It is time for the US to recognize that since it launched its war on terror, the scourge has only spread. The Afghanistan Pakistan belt has remained ground zero for transnational terrorism, and once stable countries like Libya, Iraq, and Syria have emerged as new hubs.

And went from swimming one lap so 20 yards like a drowning monkey, at about 200 beats per minute heart rate I measured it to going to Montauk on Long Island, close to where I grew up, and jumping into the ocean and swimming one kilometer in open water, getting out and feeling better than when I went in.