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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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Parent (s) Raymonda Tawil. Daoud Tawil. Suha Arafat ( Arabic: سهى عرفات; born Suha Daoud Tawil (Arabic: سهى داود الطويل) on 17 July 1963) is the widow of former Palestinian National Authority president Yasser Arafat .
- Amina Abbas
Feb 10, 2013 · Suha converted from Christianity to Islam at the time of her marriage. She led an isolated life for security reasons, she said. "I had to be careful in my phone conversations because of bugging,...
- Harriet Sherwood
Feb 10, 2013 · 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 regrets the...
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.”
Yasser Arafat (4 or 24: 269 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, 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]
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- Fatah
Nov 9, 2004 · When Yasser Arafat was allowed by Israel to return to the Palestinian territories in 1994, his wife accompanied him but did little to endear herself to his people.
Nov 13, 2014 · Yasser Arafat’s first appearance on the cover of Time magazine, in 1968. ... When seeking to bring his wife to the Oslo ceremony on the White House lawn in September 1993, he was faced with ...
