Zahawi was born into a Kurdish family in Baghdad, Iraq. When he was eleven years old, during Saddam Hussein‘s early years in power, he and his family fled to the UK. His father, Hareth, is a businessman and a director of Balshore Investments. His grandfather Nadhem Abdel-Jalil al-Zahawi was the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq from 1959 to 1960 and Minister of Trade from 1960 to 1963...