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Najwa Ghanem (Arabic: نجوى غانم; born c. 1960) is a Syrian woman who was the first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden, being the daughter of his mother's brother. She is also known as Um Abdallah (mother of Abdallah).
Feb 5, 2023 · The bin Laden family has been haunted by a string of fatal plane crashes that started with Osama's father Mohammed. A construction tycoon who sired 52 children, Mohammed bin Laden perished in 1967 when Osama was around 10 years old.
In 1974, at the age of 17, bin Laden married his first wife Najwa Ghanem at Latakia, Syria. Osama bin Laden married at least four other women; he fathered between 20 and 24 children.
May 5, 2011 · He was first married at the age of 17 to a cousin, Najwa Ghanem, who was probably two years younger than him. They had 11 children, but after a peripatetic life together Najwa finally left him...
Najwa Ghanem (born 1959), became the first wife of Osama in 1974. A first cousin, she was his mother's niece. She co-authored Growing Up bin Laden with her son Omar. Shaikha bint Laden (born 1960), half-sister of Osama, married Mohammed Jamal Khalifa.
Much of what we know about Osama Bin Laden as a father and husband comes from his first wife, Syrian-born Najwa Ghanem, and his fourth eldest son Omar.
Dec 4, 2009 · Omar, a metals trader who lives in Cairo and is married to a British woman, and his mother Najwa have told their story of life with bin Laden.
Jul 13, 2017 · 1. Najwa Ghanem: Bin Laden first married when he was a teenager, wedding Najwa Ghanem, a Syrian cousin who was born in 1958, according to her memoir, Growing Up Bin Laden. They married in...
Oct 28, 2009 · I’m pleased that my mother, Najwa Ghanem, who was my father’s first cousin, was his first wife. The position of the first wife is prestigious in my culture, and that prestige is tripled when ...
Oct 27, 2009 · NAJWA BIN LADEN, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of 15, is his first wife and the mother to seven of his sons and four of his daughters. She currently lives with three of her eleven children in the Middle East.
