Personal Life
Ishmael traces his ancestry back to what are now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. He has two children, Safraz, a Georgetown University law school alumnus and a Physics alumnus of the University of Maryland, and currently an attorney attached to a law firm in Boston; and Nadeeza, (alumnus of the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University), who, up to 2008, worked at a genetics company in Maryland and who is currently a research biologist at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His wife, Evangeline, is a teacher by profession. He also has eight brothers and three sisters which makes him the uncle of many children.
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