Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned

Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, DBE (Arabic: موزة بنت ناصر المسند‎, born August 8, 1959 in Al Khor) is the second of the three wives of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar. Sheikha Mozah is the daughter of Nasser bin Abdullah Al Missned (died in 2007), who was an opponent of Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad bin Abdallah Al Thani, father of the current Emir. The family lived in exile in Egypt and Kuwait, but returned to Qatar for the Sheikha’s marriage. She married the Emir (at the time Heir Apparent) in 1977 at the age of 18, while she was attending Qatar University. She received her BA degree in Sociology from there in 1986. Sheikha Mozah is Chairperson of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development since 1995, Chairperson of Silatech since 2008, Chairperson of the Arab Democracy Foundation, President of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs since 1998. Also, she is Vice-President of the Supreme Education Council since 2002 and was...