Born in 1982 in France to a secular Jewish family with deep historical roots—her grandparents were Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters—Perez‑Shakdam’s early life was shaped by the intersections of faith, identity, and ideology. She pursued higher education in the UK, earning degrees in psychology, finance, and communications from the University of London. In her early 20s, she married a Yemeni Muslim man, converting first to Sunni Islam and later to Shi’a Islam.
