July 25, 1955 Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, super model, actress and entrepreneur, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. Iman attended high school in Egypt and later lived in Kenya where she studied political science at Nairobi University. She is fluent in five languages, Somali, Arabic, Italian, French, and English. Iman moved to the United States in 1975 [...]
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July 25th in African American History – Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid
By Chimsima Zuhri on July 25, 2012 in Acting, African American History, July
Tags: actress, Children's Defense Fund, entrepreneur, Fashion Icon Lifetime Achievement Award, Global Chic, Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, Keep a Child Alive program, Nairobi University, super model, Vogue
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