Jehane Ragai was born in Cairo, Egypt, and is the daughter of the renowned Egyptian lawyer Nour el Din Ragai (1914-1980) and of Doria Shafik (1908-1975), the suffragette and leader of the Egyptian feminist movement from the mid 1940s to the mid 1950s [REF].
Ragai obtained the French Baccalaureate (1962) while at the French Lycee in Cairo.