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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).
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.
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.
Feb 5, 2023 · Osama bin Laden had five wives. The first was his first cousin Najwa Ghanem. Najwa knew him long before he was obsessed with toppling the West. She remembered him as being "very quiet and gentle in his manners" as a boy. The two married as teens, and Najwa bore 11 of his children. She also arranged Osama's marriage to his third wife.
May 9, 2011 · Bin Laden's first wife Najwa helped arrange his third marriage -- to Khairiah Sabar. She was another highly educated woman and held a doctorate in Islamic sharia.
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.
May 6, 2011 · He was "the most serious man I've ever known", wrote his first wife, Najwa Ghanem in her 2009 memoir, Growing Up Bin Laden. The first wife and also Osama's first cousin, Ghanem, was "promised" to him as a child and was married off in 1974, when she was just 14 and he 17.
Jan 29, 2018 · Many interesting details are contained in a book co-written by Najwa Ghanem, the first wife of Osama bin Laden and her son Omar, titled He is Bin Laden (published in 2011).
May 2, 2017 · Najwa Ghanem bin Laden is Osama bin Laden’s first wife. She was his first cousin and a year younger to him. She grew up in Syria where Osama’s family would visit them and she witnessed the...
Oct 27, 2009 · Osama was not always the mastermind terrorist we know him as now. He was a strict Muslim kid from an extremely wealthy and prominent family in Saudi Arabia who married his cousin, Najwa, when they were both teenagers. Najwa loved Osama, but he imposed strict limitations on her life.
