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==Personal Background==
 
==Personal Background==
As Mr. Chehadé explains in his first speech to an ICANN conference, he was born in Beirut of  Egyptian parents who had lived in various parts of the world before they settled in Lebanon. His family is from a Coptic Christian minority in Egypt. In Beirut,  he attended a French Christian school, speaking French at school and Arabic afterwards, until at the age of 13 his father decided to send him to Damascus due to violent tensions and the Lebanese civil war. He arrived in the U.S. at the age of 18 without knowing any English; his first job, which he retained for 7 months, was peeling onions. During this time he was also attending school to learn English. Later, his tuition at Stanford was covered by a work-study agreement with his employer, [[AT&T]].
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Mr. Chehadé was born in Beirut of  Egyptian parents who had lived in various parts of the world before they settled in Lebanon. His family is from a Coptic Christian minority in Egypt. In Beirut,  he attended a French Christian school, speaking French at school and Arabic afterwards, until at the age of 13 his father decided to send him to Damascus due to violent tensions and the Lebanese civil war. He arrived in the U.S. at the age of 18 without knowing any English; his first job, which he retained for 7 months, was peeling onions. During this time he was also attending school to learn English. Later, his tuition at Stanford was covered by a work-study agreement with his employer, [[AT&T]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjt2mCinmbg ICANN 44 Video, Youtube.com]</ref>
    
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