Suzanne Mubarak
| Suzanne Mubarak سوزان مبارك |
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Suzanne Mubarak, 2003
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| First Lady of Egypt | |
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In office 14 October 1981 – 11 February 2011 |
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| President | Hosni Mubarak |
| Preceded by | Jehan Al Sadat |
| Succeeded by | Naglaa Mahmoud |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Suzanne Saleh Thabet (Arabic: سوزان صالح ثابت) 28 February 1941 Al Minya Governorate, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Spouse(s) | Hosni Mubarak |
| Children |
Alaa Mubarak Gamal Mubarak |
| Alma mater | American University in Cairo |
| Religion | Muslim |
Suzanne Mubarak (Arabic: سوزان مبارك, Sūzān Mubārak; born 28 February 1941) is married to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and was the First Lady of Egypt during her husband's presidential tenure from 14 October 1981 to 11 February 2011. She has served as Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and founded the Cairo Child Museum in collaboration with the British Museum. Born to an Egyptian father and a British mother, she is a sociologist by 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 (died in 1978), a nurse from Pontypridd, Wales. She went to St. Claire School in Heliopolis, Cairo.
She met her future husband, an Egyptian Air Force officer named Hosni Mubarak, when she was 16 years old. The couple married when she was 17 years old and had two sons; Alaa Mubarak and Gamal Mubarak. She returned to school ten years after her marriage.
Mubarak 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".
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