Gerasa had its own bishop—still today it is a Titularbistum—and bishop Placcus (or Plancus) participated in the Council of Chalcedon.
Her father is Mahmoud Hassan Bani-Ahmad, who was born and raised in the town of Kufr Khall north of Jerash, and is now a businessman in Canada.
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Born in Damascus to philanthropic Jordanian Noblesse oblige, his father, an industrialist and a now retired-Senator for Jerash Governorate in northern Jordan, his mother is an English Literature teacher from the city of as-Salt.