If you drive around Metro Detroit you can't help but see a picture of attorney Joumana Kayrouz plastered all over billboards and buses.
And most people can't help but wonder: What is her deal?
Well, Drew Philp has written a piece for the Metro Times exploring background. Philp visits her at her Bloomfield Hills home and her Southfield office and talks to her about her upbringing in Lebanon.
Philp writes:
Kayrouz was born and raised in the Christian section of Beirut to a military officer father and a housewife mother. She is the youngest of four siblings, the other three brothers, and education was held in esteem second only to Christianity in her household. She describes her upbringing as “very safe, very comfortable” despite the civil war happening in the tiny country. “Maybe I should have been more worried.”
She defined her childhood self as a “misfit” while attending the American University in Beirut, where she studied philosophy — noting Plato, Aristotle and Jesus Christ among her favorite philosophers — and remained under the shadow of her family, especially her brothers, all of whom have Ph.D.s. She originally wanted to become a doctor.
“I am going to outdo my three brothers,” she remembers thinking, “‘do not’ never worked well for me.”
Philp reports that she moved to New Haven, Conn., just before her 22nd birthday, following her former husband, who was accepted to medical school.
She's a fan of Hillary Clinton.
“I am so shocked America hasn’t been ready for a [female president],” Kayrouz tells the Metro Times. “Enough already — she needs to be our next president.”
