Who is "Egyptian" Dina Powell nominated by Trump to succeed Nikki Haley?

Who is "Egyptian" Dina Powell nominated by Trump to succeed Nikki Haley?

US President Donald Trump is considering choosing Dina Powell, executive director of Goldman Sachs and former White House adviser, as the new US ambassador to the United Nations, instead of Nicky Healy, who has decided to resign.

"We have many names," Trump told reporters at the White House, before leaving for a meeting in Iowa as elections near Nov. 6.

Among those names, Trump named Dina Powell, a former US National Security Council official, as "someone I would think about."

Powell was an important party in diplomatic efforts in the Middle East when, in the first year of Trump's tenure, she served as deputy national security adviser for strategy.

Last December, when she announced her resignation after Trump officially announced recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said at the time that Powell had intended to stay one year in office, noting that her departure was not linked to the resolution on Jerusalem.

Dina Powell or Dina Habib was one of a handful of women who held an important position during the Trump era and were close to him in his first term.

Who is she?

Dina Habib was born in 1973 in the Egyptian capital to a father who works as an Egyptian army officer and a mother at the American University in Cairo.

In 1977, her simple Coptic family decided to emigrate to Texas, where her father was driving a bus and running with her mother a grocery store in Dallas.

In America, her parents insisted on her education on Egyptian culture and mastering the Arabic language. "I wanted to eat turkey sandwiches and cheese with potato chips in a brown paper bag and instead I always ate grape leaves, chickpeas and falafel, Of course, I appreciate very much what you have done. "

Dina excelled in her studies, studied liberal arts, and a mix of humanities, sociology, political science and criminology.

After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, she received a training course at the office of Republican senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is currently the US representative in NATO.


Dina Habib Powell is married to a PR man, Richard Powell, and they have a daughter, and reside in New York State.