[post_page_title]Moving to America[/post_page_title]
Mohamed was born in in 1948 as one of eight children, to a Muslim family living in the Israeli city of Nazareth. His father, Anwar Hadid, (whom his son is named after) studied at a Jerusalem Teachers College and got a job teaching English shortly after graduating. Mohamed and his family lived in Damascus, Tunisia, and Greece before finally moving to the United States, making Washington D.C. their official home when Mohamed was 14 years old.