Meet Argentina’s new first lady: a Lebanese model with Muslim heritage

posted on: Nov 24, 2015

Argentina’s President elect Mauricio Macri, who is vowing to correct problems created by the South American’s previous government, happens to be married to a woman of Lebanese and Syrian descent.

Twice divorced, the 56-year-old Macri is married to the 41-year-old model and fashion entrepreneur, Juliana Awada, with whom he has a daughter.

Awada’s father is a Lebanese immigrant – native of Baalbek, and mother of Syrian immigrant background, and both are Muslims in heritage.

In an interview with La Nacion newspaper in 2012, Awada said her father is a liberal Muslim who had no objections when one of her sisters married in a church or when her other sister married a Jew.

Source: english.alarabiya.net