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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
