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2024, The Times:

Mahmood and her twin brother were born in Birmingham in 1980, but spent their first seven years in Taif, a mountain city in Saudi Arabia, where her father, a civil engineer who had migrated to Britain as a teenager in the sixties, worked in desalination. She recalls: “We lived amongst the very small British expat community. I didn’t learn Arabic. My mum taught us Urdu at home because she didn’t want us to lose our additional heritage, but everything else was English. We had a great time as Muslims … most weekends we either went to Mecca or to the Prophet’s mosques at Medina. A lot of my earliest memories are in those places.”

“I believe that life is a gift from God, but it’s also a test. I feel like I’ve been very blessed in my life. But every blessing is a test. It’s not just something you bank for yourself. You should almost fear your success because now you have to answer for it. You have to use it for good. And that’s how I think about my political career.”

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2024, The Times:

Mahmood and her twin brother were born in Birmingham in 1980, but spent their first seven years in Taif, a mountain city in Saudi Arabia, where her father, a civil engineer who had migrated to Britain as a teenager in the sixties, worked in desalination. She recalls: “We lived amongst the very small British expat community. I didn’t learn Arabic. My mum taught us Urdu at home because she didn’t want us to lose our additional heritage, but everything else was English. We had a great time as Muslims … most weekends we either went to Mecca or to the Prophet’s mosques at Medina. A lot of my earliest memories are in those places.”

“I believe that life is a gift from God, but it’s also a test. I feel like I’ve been very blessed in my life. But every blessing is a test. It’s not just something you bank for yourself. You should almost fear your success because now you have to answer for it. You have to use it for good. And that’s how I think about my political career.”

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