تزوج والداه في القاهرة في عام 1945 ، حيث ولدت أوديت، والدته، من أب مسيحي ماروني من سكان القرية، الذين كانوا قد غادروا للعمل في مصر، حيث ولدت ووالدته في تركيا.
His parents married in Cairo in 1945, where Odette, his mother, was born of a Maronite Christian father from the village, who had left to work in Egypt, and his mother born in Turkey.