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Adnan Khashoggi — the man behind the legend

Adnan Khashoggi, his mother and father were all very intimately connected to the Yassin family.

My mother and her younger sister Samiha, Khashoggi’s mother, originally came from Syria to live in Madinah in the early 1900s. Samiha was one of the most beautiful women we ever knew, and she is still remembered as full of life and overflowing with love.
Under the care and love of Samiha and my mother, the Khashoggi and Yassin families were almost as one, whether in Taif or in Makkah, at school in Alexandria or in the US.

We shared our childhoods and adulthoods. Khashoggi was unique, and also a best friend to my brother Anas, who was a year older.

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They worked together and started a business in Saudi Arabia in the early 1950s. The Yassins and Khashoggis were forever inseparable. The Khashoggis’ home was always open to us, as ours was always open to them.
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