Born in Prague to an Iraqi Muslim father from Baghdad and a Catholic Czech mother,[2] six months after the birth of Nouri, along with her parents they lived in Baghdad until she reached sixteen. Soon after the Gulf war erupted, Nouri's father divorced her mother, whom decided to travel back to Prague along with Nouri and her sisters in 1988 after the fall of communism, Nouri then leaves at the age of eighteen to settle in Italy.[3]