Abstract
Before discussing my passion for quality-of-life (QOL) and well-being research, allow me to touch upon my educational/professional roots. I was born in 1952 in Cairo, Egypt of Lebanese/Syrian parents (my mother a Greek Orthodox, my dad a Greek Catholic). My early education was at St. George’s College, an Irish parochial school in Cairo. At the age of 16 I left Egypt for Lebanon (Beirut) from where I immigrated to the USA. While wiating for my immigration papers to come through, I took on a job as a translator in a cinematography lab, where English, American, and French television shows were translated into Arabic subtitles. I arrived in the USA in 1970, afterwhich I started taking college evening courses at the community college in Los Angeles while Applied Research Quality Life (2015) 10:371–373 DOI 10.1007/s11482-015-9407-x
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