Shoman’s son, Abdul Majeed, was born in Palestine while Shoman was away. At the age of one, his mother passed away and he was taken into the care of his paternal grandmother.

Shoman wanted his son to join him in the US; however, he believed that the boy’s education in his homeland and his mastery of Arabic were more important. He waited until his son completed his primary schooling at Beit Hanina, and his studies in al-Rawda School in Jerusalem before sending for him to come to the US.

Upon Abdul Majeed’s arrival to the US, he was enrolled in a Secondary School in the suburbs of New York, where he met his father for the first time at the young age of 14. Abdul Majeed obtained both his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Economics and Banking at the University of New York (NYU) in 1931, after which he returned to Palestine to assist his father in managing the newly established Arab Bank.