Annelies Ismail

Annelies Ismail was born 1942 in Berlin, Germany and has been married to an Egyptian since 1965. She worked for more than forty years in the computer industry, eighteen of these with her husband in their own company. After living in Germany, the USA and France, since 2004 the couple lives in Alexandria, Egypt.

Mona Gabriel was born in 1968 in Endicott, NY, USA As the daughter of an Egyptian father and a German mother (Annelies Ismail) she has experienced the advantages and the drawbacks of such a colorful family set-up. After studying advertising and marketing she worked in international marketing at a publishing house. She has been a freelance copy editor and journalist since 1997. Mona Gabriel lives in Leipzig, Germany, together with her husband and two children.