Safia Farkash

Safia Farkash
Born	1952 (age 64–65) Disputed
Other names	Safia Farkash el-Brasai
Occupation	Businesswoman
Spouse(s)	Muammar Gaddafi (m. 1970–2011)

Safia Farkash El Hadad (born 1952) is the widow of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and mother of seven of his eight biological children.

There are two different stories about her origin. One is that Farkash is from a family from the Eastern Libyan Barasa tribe and that she was born in Bayda and was trained as a nurse.

The other story is that Farkash was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina as "Zsófia Farkas" and has a Bosnian Croat and Hungarian origin.

She met Gaddafi when he was hospitalised and treated for appendicitis in 1970. She became his second wife when they married in Tripoli during the same year.

Farkash has seven biological children with Gaddafi and two adopted children:

She and Gaddafi are rumored to have adopted two children, Hanna and Milad.

The family's main residence was in the Bab al-Azizia military barracks, located in the southern suburbs of Tripoli.

Farkash kept a low profile during the initial period of her marriage to Gaddafi; however, after the release on license of Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi in 2009, she took a more public profile. She organised a party covered by the local media to celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 revolution that brought her husband to power, and in 2010 attended the graduation of female police students.

In 2008, Farkash was elected vice president to the African First Ladies Organization in a meeting of African Union leaders in Sharm al-Sheikh, even though she was not present at the meeting, and has never taken part in activities related to it.

Farkash owns airline Buraq Air, headquartered at Mittiga International Airport. Operated with the approval of her husband, even though it is a rival of the Libyan national carrier, it monopolizes the transfer of Libyan Hajj pilgrims to Mecca.

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