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Najwa Ghanem (Arabic: نجوى غانم; born c. 1960) [1] 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 Umm Abdallah (mother of Abdallah). [2] Biography. Najwa was born to Ibrahim and Nabeeha in Latakia, Syria, and her family was originally from Yemen.
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.
Photos from the book Growing Up Bin Laden, authored by Osama's first wife Najwa, his son Omar and Jean Sasson.
29 sty 2018 · 10 min read. The videos and various photographs found in the Abbottabad files clearly reveal that the wives and children of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden endured a life of great hardship and trauma for over two decades.
In 1974, at the age of 17, bin Laden married his first wife Najwa Ghanem at Latakia, Syria. [4] [5] Osama bin Laden married at least four other women; [6] he fathered between 20 and 24 children.
5 lut 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.
1 maj 2022 · Najwa Ghanem is a Syrian woman who is the first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden. Her father is the brother of Osama's mother, Hamida al-Attas, neé A'alia Ghanem. Najwa was "promised" in marriage to Osama. She is the mother of Saad bin Laden, as well as at least 10 more sons.
