Amal was born to Bechara and Adele Ghanem, the youngest of their eight children: Leila, Assine, Abraham, Rashed, Marie, Wedad, and Kenneth. At the time of Amal’s birth, the Arab-Israeli War made conditions dangerous for the Ghanem family in Lebanon. So her birth was not recorded until April 12, 1949, sometime after her actual birthday. Amal sometimes joked that if...