Suzanne
Mubarak born 28 February 1941) is married to the
former Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak
and was the First Lady of Egypt
until her husband resigned on 11
February 2011.
Early life and
education
Suzanne
Mubarak was born in Al Minya
Governorate, located on
the Nile River
about 250 kilometres to the south
of Cairo, on 28
February 1941. Her father,
Saleh Thabet, was an Egyptian pediatrician 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 study of primary school
upgrading in Bulaq".
Involvement in Mubarak
regime
Suzanne´s
activities in projects relating to human trafficking and family
affairs became prominent in Egypt. She led the
Egyptian U.N. delegation in conferences relating to women and
children. In October 2008, she was nominated as
Goodwill
Ambassador of
the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO). She was a
patron of the children´s television series,
Alam Simsim
(Arabic for "Sesame´s World"), Egypt´s
version of the American series, Sesame
Street. In 1985
she founded the Child Museum of Cairo
in collaboration with the
British
Museum. In 2005, she opened the
Hurghada branch of
Mubarak´s Public Library.
In March
2008, Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Eissa
was arrested for reporting on Hosni
Mubarak´s health problems in August 2007.
Suzanne Mubarak then gave a rare
television address to allege that Hosni was actually healthy and
reporters who suggested otherwise deserve to be
punished.
Family
Suzanne
Mubarak is the wife of former Egyptian President
Hosni
Mubarak. She is the daughter of an Egyptian
pediatrician, Saleh Thabet, and Welsh nurse Lily
Palmer. Saleh Thabet, at the time a 29-year-old medical student
at Cardiff
University, married
the 29-year-old Lily May Palmer at Islington, London on 16 March
1934. Palmer was a trained nurse working at The Infirmary on Camden
Road, Islington. She was the daughter of colliery manager Charles
Henry Palmer, and grew up in Pontypridd, Glamorgan,
Wales. Suzanne Mubarak´s older
brother, Mounir
Sabet, is a former president of
the Egyptian
Olympic Committee.
She has two
sons — Alaa and Gamal — two grandsons and a
granddaughter. One of the two grandsons, 12 year old Muhammad
Mubarak, died on 18 May 2009 in Paris after a
two-day health crisis.
Honours
2006: Ibsen
Centennial Commemoration Award, presented
by Queen Sonja of Norway
in Egypt on the occasion of
the Ibsen Year
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