 Later, her uncle Feisal Al-Damluji served as a member of Parliament and a government minister several times before the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état.Both of Maysoon's parents were renowned professors of medicine; her father, Dr. Salem Al-Damluji was the head of Baghdad's medical school, which had then considered the best in the Arab world.Al-Damluji graduated from Baghdad's prestigious Al Mansoor Private School in 1980.