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My two brothers are also mathematicians; Ali and Mohammad Assem Abd-AlQader Mahmoud. Mohammad is a Logician and Computability Theorist, and he currently works as an Assistant Professor Teaching Stream at UTM, and Ali is an Algebraic Combinatorialist and his research has applications in Quantum Physics and Quantum Computing, and currently he is a postdoctoral fellow at IQC, University of Waterloo. 

We owe our success to our father, Assem, who - though an architect - taught us a lot of high level math as children, and even right before we joined university. He taught us drawing as well.