Souk El Gharb
Rima Fakih was born on September 22, 1985 in Srifa, a small city in the Jabal Amel region of Southern Lebanon, to parents Hussein and Nadia Fakih. She is the fourth of five children; her siblings include brothers Rabih and Rami, and sisters Rana and Rouba. Fakih was raised in a Shia Muslim family. She spent her early life in the village of Souk El Gharb, and attended Catholic school near Beirut.