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Feb 10, 2013 · Sun 10 Feb 2013 09.58 EST. Yasser Arafat's widow has said she tried to leave her husband hundreds of times and that had she known what marriage to the Palestinian leader would be like, she would ...
- Harriet Sherwood
Soon after his departure from Paris, Arafat asked Suha to come and work with him in Tunisia (where the Palestinian Liberation Organization had set up a haven). 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.
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Nov 7, 2004 · Jean-Claude Robard, a Swiss investment adviser, told Al-Jazeera that Arafat opened his first secret bank account in 1965 with a $50,000 check from the emir of Kuwait.Since then, Robard said ...
Nov 7, 2003 · Arafat has always lived modestly, which you can't say about his wife, Suha. According to Israeli officials, she gets $100,000 a month from Arafat out of the Palestinian budget, and lives lavishly ...
- CBS News
Aug 22, 2007 · Published: 22 August 2007. There have been consistent reports that Suha Arafat, widow of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, has withdrawn tens of millions of dollars’ worth of investment from Tunis, prompting the Tunisian authorities to strip her of the Tunisian citizenship.
In 1990, Arafat, a Sunni Muslim, married Suha, who converted to Islam. At the time, Arafat was 62 and Suha 28. The secret marriage came as a surprise to most Palestinians because Arafat had always said he was “married to the Palestinian cause.”. After the signing of the Oslo Accords and the return of the PLO leadership from exile in 1994 ...
Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat [a] (4 [3] [4] or 24 [5] [6] : 269 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, [b] was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. [7]
