Introducing Dinah Lilia Mansour

Dinah Lilia Mansour: A star is born

Born Dinah Lilia Kallini  in October 18th 1980 to a Qatari mother; Sousou Abdel Malak and an Egyptian/ Italian Father; Eddy Kallini, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She later left to Cairo with her parents to attend school. She is the youngest of her sisters.

Dinah's father (Kallini ) owns several buildings and plazas in Baku,  Azerbaijan, Istanbul, Turkey, Russia, Egypt Cairo, Port Said, and in various cities of Canada.

She graduated from the UAC in 2003 and later obtained B.S.Ed. from NYU (Abu Dhabi) in 2007. Dina is married to  Ahab Mansour and together they have a son; Dave Mansour. She worked in her father's real estate and automotive firm while attending college. She later assumed control of that family business in 2001, following which Dinah built hotels, palaces for the royalties, casinos around the world, over 2000 home development sites and numerous other developments, many of which bear her name. Dina has turned her company name, into a valuable and distinct brand, licensing it to numerous enterprises in which she has minimal or no stake. 

Dina is the Chairman & President of  AL M'ADINA FINANCIAL GROUP. www.almadinafinancial.ca She is the CEO (RED CORPORATIONS) www.redrto.com  She is 50% stake holder in OEIS CORPORATIONS (2002-2016 www.oeis.ca

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Dinah is driven; having grown up and seen the sufferings of women in her country and countries where she sojourned, Dinah seems to be propelled by a desire to undo the pain that these sufferings have left. There is no wonder therefore that Dinah dreams of doing things that are covertly and overtly aimed at poverty alleviation.

Prior to graduating from college, Dinah began her real estate career with her father's company inCairo, Egypt. One of her Primary projects has been the revitalization of the foreclosed complexes in Downtown Cairo, which her father had purchased for 2.3million pounds in 1975. Both became involved in the project and with a $375,000.00 investment, turned the 1,640-unit complex's occupancy rate from 34% to 100%.

At age 21, she made a successful commercial foray into entertainment business, investing hundreds of thousands of Dollars to become the co-producer of "The diligence lounge" located in St Laurent, Montreal. In 2008, Dinah moved to Toronto, where she became involved in larger construction projects, and used attractive architectural design to win public recognition. Dinah is known to have traveled the world, and made businesses all over Europe and the Middle East. She gained notoriety and fame in 2008, following several the investments of millions of dollars in the GTA real estate industry.

In 2011, Dinah was president of LA VILLAZ CORPORATIONS, and later amended the company name to AL M'ADINA FINANCIAL GROUP, named after her long-time friend; president and owner of  AL MADINA FINANCIAL in Qatar.

Dinah is known to be ferocious and aggressive, a passionate go-getter.  In 2016 she established RED CORPORATIONS with a view to operating her proprietary Rent – to –own program. RED is a Rent to own Program that has homed more than 100 families in the past three months, a testament of Dina’s Managerial prowess.

Dinah also holds 50% shares in an (International) Investigation Firm based in Ontario, with plans to establish some international offices in several cities including New York City, US.

Dinah purchased and is renovating a building that would become the Dinah Plaza in Hugharda, Cairo, Egypt and is expected to be completed by 2022.

In 2009, along with several of her associates, she completed the development of the Four Seasons Hotels and Resort, in Cairo Egypt estimated at 410 million pounds. The project involved complicated negotiations with different parties, for the land, and the ISPS above a neighboring building. When negotiations were completed in 2005, "Al Akhbar" (Lebanon) wrote;

"...That Mrs. Dinah Lilia Mansour was able to obtain the location, is glowing testimony of her persistence and her skills as a negotiator."

Favorable reviews of the building’s design helped convince the city to approve the project. Dinah hired the famed,’ Zaha Hadid Architectural Services’, to manage the building's construction. That along with several other choice properties have become the hallmark of Dina’s Accomplishment in Egypt.

In 2009, Dinah joined the Rooya Group for the structural stonework of the Stone Towers Cairo.

H. Shoukri, CEO of Rooya Group said ‘’ The Stone Tower needed a professional with daring ideas, innovation, mathematical skills, investment skills and international expertise and experience… it truly needed Dinah’’

Dinah also invested in the stocks market. Investing in such stocks as those of Bank of America, Citigroup, Caterpillar Inc., Intel, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble. In December 2013, Dinah revealed that she also has US$2.2 million invested in hedge funds. She earned US$3.7 million from selling her shares in Bank of America.

Whether she is worth 23 million Dollars or 75 million Dollars as is reported in certain circles, Dinah is certainly one of the richest European/Arabic Canadian business women in Canada. In her usual and characteristic unassuming nature, she has denied any and all such claims to wealth.

Dinah's husband, Ahab Mansour, was listed on the "Al Jadid" journal, one of the wealthiest individuals in Egypt, in 2001 as having an estimated $200 million fortune, including a share of his father's estimated $600 million net worth.

It has been said that Dinah began her career with "a small loan from her father” which she has since paid back and gone ahead to build her business empire.

Meet Dinah Lilia Mansour

Dinah was introduced to the cinema business in Cairo, in 2002. It was during this time that Samy El Adel (a renowned Egyptian Film producer), first discovered her talents.

After several attempts to get into the movie making industry, in 2004, Dinah resigned from her role in a movie called "Qualeben" which co-stared Ahmed el Fishawee, Award winning, Hassan Hosni Noor, and Award winning, Samy el Adl.

She travelled as an itinerant singer/musician, performing for dignitaries, princes (es) ambassadors, presidents and the crème-de-la crème of Middle Eastern Audiences.

She hosted a popular reality television show on ART Channel in 2004, with Karim Kojak, the two time nominee for most seen TV show (2000-2004) award. Dinah also performed a song written and produced by the famous Jordanian Queen of love " Warda" " Lebet el 2ayam" on National television with the renowned pianist and Arabic music producer; Magdi el Husseini "

Her other musical accomplishment include performances with   Ehab Tewfik (2002) Montreal, Qc Aziza Omar (2002) Montreal Qc Egypt, Giza boat Sabah Tewfik (2004) Montreal, QC. She was a popular voice on "Hello Lebanon" the popular radio show with Victor Diab (2005)

She won the highest number of voices in 2003 for her incredible association with One Heart Bulgaria Orphanage, and later was pronounced "Ambassador". In 2005, Dinah stopped affiliating with the Orphanage due to some financials short falls.