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Najwa Ghanem (Arabic: نجوى غانم; born c. 1960) [1] 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 Umm Abdallah (mother of Abdallah). [2]
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.
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.
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.
In 1974, at the age of 17, bin Laden married his first wife Najwa Ghanem at Latakia, Syria. [4] [5] Osama bin Laden married at least four other women; [6] he fathered between 20 and 24 children.
In a new book about her time living with bin Laden, Najwa Ghanem has told how she gave birth to 11 of his 14 children because bin Laden said that Islam needed many warriors.
Najwa Ghanem is Osama’s first cousin and became his first wife, aged 15, in 1974.
In 1974, at the age of 15, Najwa married her first cousin, 17-year-old Osama bin Laden. She had grown up in a conservative Muslim household; he was one of the wealthy, powerful bin Ladens. She recalls a young husband drawn away on business and her life of seclusion and duty, giving birth to seven sons and four daughters, accepting other wives ...
Gaza-Author Najwa Ghanem did a book signing in the Gaza Strip for her book “Wings of Fear” telling the stories of Palestinian women and children under siege. The book is a short story collection. At the book signing, Najwa Ghanem stated that there are 38 stories in her book that focus on the stories of Palestinian women and children.
At the age of 18, bin Laden married his 14-year-old first cousin named Najwa Ghanem, who had been promised to him, and in 1976, the same year he graduated from Al Thager, his first child, a son...