Born into a Syrian Christian family in Lebanon in 1903. His father converted from Greek Orthodox to Presbyterian in the 1920s. Atiyah attended a British school in Egypt, then moved to England and finished his education at Oxford University.
Born into a Syrian Christian family in Lebanon in 1903. His father converted from Greek Orthodox to Presbyterian in the 1920s. Atiyah attended a British school in Egypt, then moved to England and finished his education at Oxford University.