Suzanne Mubarak (Arabic: سوزان مبارك, Sūzān Mubārak; born 28 February 1941) is married to the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and was First Lady of Egypt until his ouster on 11 February 2011.
Suzanne Mubarak was born in Al Minya Governorate, located on the Nile River about 250 kilometres to the south of Cairo. Her father, Saleh Thabet, was an Egyptian surgeon and her mother was Lily May Palmer, a nurse from Pontypridd, Wales. She went to...
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Suzanne Mubarak (Arabic: سوزان مبارك, Sūzān Mubārak; born 28 February 1941) is married to the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and was First Lady of Egypt until his ouster on 11 February 2011.
Suzanne Mubarak was born in Al Minya Governorate, located on the Nile River about 250 kilometres to the south of Cairo. Her father, Saleh Thabet, was an Egyptian surgeon and her mother was Lily May Palmer, a nurse from Pontypridd, Wales. She went to St. Claire School in Heliopolis, Cairo.
Suzanne met her future husband, an Egyptian Air Force officer named Hosni Mubarak, when she was 16 years old. The couple married when Suzanne was 17 years old and had two sons, Alaa Mubarak and Gamal Mubarak. She returned to school ten years after her marriage.
She graduated from American University in Cairo (AUC) in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in political science and then received a master's degree in sociology from AUC in 1982. She wrote a thesis on "Social Action Research in Urban Egypt: Case...
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