Suzanne Mubarak

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Suzanne Mubarak (2003)

Suzanne Mubarak ( Arabic سوزان مبارك, DMG Suzān Mubārak ; born Sūzān Ṣāliḥ Thābit , also spelled Suzanne Saleh Sabet ; *  February 28,  1941 in al-Minya , Egypt ) was married to the former Egyptian President Husni Mubarak until his death in February 2020 and was the First Lady of Egypt from October 14, 1981 to February 11, 2011 .

Suzanne Mubarak was born in 1941 as the daughter of the Egyptian pediatrician Saleh Mustafa Sabet and his wife from Pontypridd , Wales , the nurse Lily May (née Palmer), in the province of al-Minya , 150 kilometers south of Cairo on the Nile . She is widely related to Anwar as-Sadat's widow, Jehan Sadat .

Saleh Mustafa Sabet met Lily May Palmer while studying at Cardiff University . The couple married in London on March 16, 1934 and moved to Egypt a short time later. In 1936 Mounir , the older brother of Suzanne Sabet (Mubarak), was born.

At St. Claire Heliopolis Middle School and the American University in Cairo , she received an education with a western style. She studied political science and sociology and graduated in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in political science, and in 1982 with a master's degree in sociology. (Subject of the thesis: Social Action Research in Urban Egypt. A case study of primary school upgrading in Bulaq. )

With Husni Mubarak she has two sons, the politically influential Gamal Mubarak , who was traded as the "Crown Prince" of Egypt until the beginning of 2011, and Alaa Mubarak , who abstains from any political activity .

Ms. Mubarak took over the patronage for the Egyptian television series Alam Simsim ("Sesame's World"), a kind of Sesame Street , which aims to literate the Egyptian youth, as well as the office of honorary president of the Egyptian Rotarians .

On February 19, 2003, Suzanne Mubarak received the Medal of Honor from the Free University of Berlin . She has been an honorary citizen of the University of Stuttgart since 2004 . On December 10, 2006, Mubarak was awarded the annual Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal by the artist Alexandra Hildebrandt .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Telegraph January 30, 2011: Egypt crisis: Mubarak family profile
  2. ↑ WalesOnline March 9, 2009: Egypt's first lady Suzanne Mubarak describes her fight for Arab women's rights
  3. ↑ Newsletter Free University Berlin No. 1/2003 (PDF; 143 kB)
  4. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of March 5, 2011: Ms. Mubarak remains an honorary citizen
  5. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/gewaltfrei-fuer-die-menschenrechte-suzanne-mubarak-geehre/785578.html

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personal data
SURNAME Mubarak, Suzanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mubārak, Suzān; Sabet, Suzanne Saleh (maiden name); Thabet, Suzanne Saleh (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian wife of President Hosni Mubarak
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Al-Minya , Egypt