Early Life
Dina was born in Cairo, Egypt, to 'Abdu'l-Hamid bin Muhammad 'Abdu'l-Aziz and Fakhria Brav. She was entitled to use the honorific sharifa of Mecca as an agnatic descendant of Hasan ibn Ali and was a third cousin to her father-in-law, King Talal. Her father and uncles claimed a waqf that consisted of nearly 2000 feddans.
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