Sharif el-gamal biography
Sharif el-gamal biography
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Sharif El-Gamal
American real estate developer
Sharif El-Gamal (born December 23, 1973) is an American real estate developer. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Soho Properties, a Manhattan-based real estate company.
El-Gamal came to international attention in 2010 for his role in the development of Park51, a planned Islamic community center and prayer space to be located about two blocks away from the World Trade Center site.[1]
Biography
El-Gamal was born in Brooklyn, New York[2] to an Egyptian Muslim father and a Roman Catholic mother of Polish descent on December 23, 1973.[3]
He lived in Brooklyn until age 9 when his mother died.
He then followed his father to Liberia and Egypt where he attended the Schutz American School. El-Gamal returned to the United States for college, enrolling in various New York universities but eventually dropping out when he decided to stop pursuing formal education.[4]
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