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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.
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Feb 10, 2013 · Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem. 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...
- Harriet Sherwood
Feb 10, 2013 · Follow. 10 February 2013, 10:25 am. 62. Suha Arafat in 2013 (screen capture:Youtube/AlJazeeraEnglish) Nine years after the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, his widow said she...
In mid-1995, Arafat's wife Suha gave birth in a Paris hospital to a daughter, named Zahwa after Arafat's mother. Name. Arafat's full name was Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. Mohammed Abdel Rahman was his first name, Abdel Raouf was his father's name and Arafat his grandfather's.
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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 ...
Nov 22, 1993 · In her functions as Mrs. Arafat, she visits hospitals, meets with dignitaries and, as often as she can, looks in on a houseful of 50 children that her husband adopted from the Sabra and Shatilla...
Arafat, circa 1940. Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa Al-Husseini, more commonly known as Yasser Arafat was the fifth of seven children born to a Palestinian textile merchant on August 24, 1929.
