Reya el-salahi wikipedia

But it wasn’t until she reached her formative years that Reya — the daughter of a British Jewish mother and a Sudanese Arab father — realised that her familial situation was unique.

“I began to question it more later on,” the 32-year-old told me.

“I realised that not everyone came from a family of mixed ethnicity and religion.”

The news and current affairs presenter, reporter and journalist was born in London and spent her early years in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar, before moving back to Oxford, with her mum Katherine, dad Ibrahim and three siblings when she was five.

Intermarriage is nothing new among Britain’s Jewish community.

But what is less common is a Jew marrying an Arab, as happened with Reya’s parents.

They met when Newcastle-raised Katherine (nee Levine) was studying in London for a post-graduate degree. Artist Ibrahim was also studying in the capital.

“Surprisingly