Amina Abbas

Amina Abbas (Arabic: أمينة عباس; née Al-Fanous; born 1942) is a Palestinian public figure who, as the wife of President Mahmoud Abbas, is the current first lady of Palestine.

Amina Abbas
أمينة عباس‎
First Lady of the State of Palestine
Current
Assumed role 8 May 2005
President	Mahmoud Abbas
Preceded by	Suha Arafat
First Lady of the Palestinian National Authority
Current
Assumed role 15 January 2005
President	Mahmoud Abbas
Preceded by	Suha Arafat
Personal details
Born	Amina Khaled Mustafa Al-Fanous 1942 (age 82–83)
Political party	Fatah
Spouse	Mahmoud Abbas ​ (m. 1958)​
Children	3 (including Yasser Abbas)

Public life

Abbas is the First Lady of Palestine.^[1] She has served as Palestine's first lady since her husband was elected president in 2005.^[2][3]

She represented the State of Palestine at the second conference of the Arab Women Organization, a Jordanian women's rights organization, held in the United Arab Emirates in 2008.^{[citation needed]} On 28 February 2012, Abbas co-sponsored a charitable donation campaign, along with Turkish First Lady Emine Erdoğan, for victims of an earthquake in Van, Turkey.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

She married Mahmoud Abbas in 1958.^{[citation needed]} They have three sons.^[4] Her eldest son, Mazen Abbas, who ran a building company in Doha, died in Qatar of a heart attack in 2002.^[5] Her second son, Yasser Abbas, is a businessman.^[6] Her youngest son, Tareq, is a business executive. She has eight grandchildren, six of whom are part of the Seeds of Peace initiative.^[7]

In June 2014, Abbas underwent a surgical procedure at Assuta Medical Center, a private clinic in Ramat HaHayal in Tel Aviv.^[8][9] She was released two days after an operation on her leg.^[10][11]