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Suha secretly married Arafat on 17 July 1990, when she was aged 27 and he was 61. Their only child, daughter Zahwa, was born on 24 July 1995 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Zahwa was named after Arafat's mother. Suha converted to Sunni Islam at the time of her marriage.
Feb 10, 2013 · According to the report, the two first met in 1986 when she was a student in Paris and engaged to a local lawyer. At the time, Suha recalled, the Palestinian leader, 33 years her senior, was a ...
Despite her conversion to Islam, her apartment was decorated with images of Jesus Christ, Pope John Paul II and a young Yasser Arafat. Suha created an aid organization to improve the status of women in Palestinian society.
Nov 9, 2004 · Suha Tawil was a child of privilege, accustomed from an early age to international travel. Her mother, Raymonda Tawil, was a journalist and a famous local beauty in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
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The legacy of the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat will continue, his widow, Suha has told BBC HARDtalk in a rare broadcast interview.
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Nov 22, 1993 · And then they were -- they are -- so terribly different, 30-year-old Suha Tawil and 64-year-old Yasser Arafat. The Cartesian meets the Byzantine. She of the Sorbonne, where she studied...
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Nov 6, 2013 · On July 17, 1990, at the age of 27, she secretly married Arafat (61) after she converted to Islam. Their only child, Zahwa, was born in July 1995 in France and was named after Arafat’s...
