Anna Della Subin and Hussein Ahmed Hussein Omar were married on Aug. 10 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Angel L. Lopez, a staff member in the Office of the City Clerk, officiated.
The bride, 31, who is keeping her name, is a freelance writer in Brooklyn focusing on religion, culture and literature. She is also a contributing editor to Bidoun, a magazine in Manhattan devoted to the arts and culture of the Middle East. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and received a master’s degree in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School.
She is the daughter of Nina Subin and Eliot Weinberger of Manhattan. The bride’s father works in Manhattan as a literary essayist, whose many collections of essays include “An Elemental Thing.” He is also a political commentator, editor and translator. Her mother is a portrait photographer with a studio in Manhattan.
The groom, 29, is a junior research fellow in modern Middle East history at Oxford, where he is to begin working in October as a research associate on the history faculty. He is also working toward a Ph.D. in modern Egyptian history at Oxford, from which he graduated with first class honors, and received a master’s in Middle East studies.
He is a son Ahmed H. Omar of Cairo and the late Mona Saba. The groom’s father is the chief executive of Egyptian Water Works, a water treatment and renewable energy company in Cairo. His mother was a child psychologist in Cairo, and a founder of the Advance School for Autistic Children there.
The couple met in April 2011 at a dinner party at the groom’s apartment in Cairo, when Ms. Subin was there for an article and Mr. Omar was doing work for his Ph.D.