Editing Nassim Nicholas Taleb (section)

==Early life and family background==
[[File:Taleb student.png|thumb|250px|Taleb as a student]]
Taleb was born in [[Amioun]], [[Lebanon]], to Minerva Ghosn and Nagib Taleb, an [[oncologist]] and a researcher in [[anthropology]]. His parents were [[Greek Orthodox Christians]],<ref name="cadwalladr">{{cite news |first=Carole |last=Cadwalladr |date=24 November 2012 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/24/nassim-taleb-antifragile-finance-interview |title=Nassim Taleb: my rules for life |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=7 May 2015}}</ref> and had [[French nationality law|French citizenship]]. His maternal grandfather {{Wikidata fallback link|Q43475996}} and great-grandfather {{Wikidata fallback link|Q43476186}} were both [[Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon|deputy prime ministers of Lebanon]] in the 1940s through the 1970s, and his four-times great grandfather was one of the [[Mount_Lebanon_Mutasarrifate#The_Protocol|board of directors]] to the administrator of [[Mount Lebanon]].<ref name="AUBcommence" />  His paternal grandfather Nassim Taleb was a supreme court judge.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/22/blowing-up |title=Blowing Up |magazine=The New Yorker |first=Malcolm |last=Gladwell |date=15 April 2002 |access-date=3 January 2019|via=www.newyorker.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/86648df6-ddca-11e6-86ac-f253db7791c6 |title=How to avert catastrophe |website=Financial Times |date=19 January 2017 |access-date=3 January 2019}}</ref> Taleb attended a French school in Beirut, the [[Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais]].<ref name=BakerSaid08/><ref name=FT>{{cite news | last=Wighton| first=David| date=28 March 2008| title=Lunch with the FT: Nassim Nicholas Taleb| work=[[Financial Times]]|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2855f64c-f976-11dc-9b7c-000077b07658.html |access-date=7 May 2015}}</ref> His family saw its political prominence and wealth reduced by the [[Lebanese Civil War]], which began in 1975.<ref>{{cite news | last=Helmore| first=Edward| date=27 September 2008| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/28/businessandfinance.philosophy | title=The new sage of Wall Street|work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=7 May 2015}}</ref> He is a [[Greek Orthodox Christian]].<ref name="cadwalladr"/>