Suha Arafat

Suha at- Tawil (Arabic سهى الطويل, DMG Suha Tawil - aṭ; born 1963 in Jerusalem) is the widow of former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

Life

She was born into the wealthy family of bankers at- Tawil, baptized Greek Orthodox and educated by Catholic nuns in Ramallah. Her mother Raymonda Hawa Tawil is a well-known journalist and feminist in the Palestinian national movement, which in 1981 received the Bruno Kreisky Prize. While Arafat was first received in 1989 by the French Government with full honors in Paris, he learned to know Suha, who studied at the Sorbonne International Relations. It was after his economic adviser and lover in his exile in Tunis.

Marriage with Arafat

On July 17, 1990, Suha was then 27 years old, she married the 61 -year-old Arafat. The wedding, however, was kept secret because Arafat had previously always maintained that he could be married in his life only with Palestine. A few months earlier, Suha had converted to Islam.

The pair with the common daughter Zahwa lived up to the beginning of the second Intifada in a superb villa in the Gaza Strip, although Suha was never accepted in the Palestinian territories and clearly discredited and is undesirable. She let herself go in expensive German sedans through the dusty and ruined streets of Ramallah and wore designer clothes from Paris and London. Politically, Arafat was never supported by his wife. You always brought back to the Palestinian leadership against themselves by making fun about the peace brokered by the U.S., she and her husband Benjamin Netanyahu had signed in 1998. During a visit of the then First Lady Hillary Clinton in Ramallah accused Israel to have contaminated the area of Palestinians with poison gas, which is the cause for the increased incidence of cancer. Clinton was subsequently criticized for not acting immediately. She distanced herself until the next day in Jordan by these accusations.

Paris

As of 2001, there were Suha and daughter in a suite in the Paris luxury hotel Bristol. During their stay there, they should have received monthly grants Arafat in the amount of about $ 100,000. In order, however, the Entourage and the protection of persons have been paid. The hostility between Palestinians and representatives Suha reached the end of 2004 during the Paris hospital stay Arafat its climax. Solidarity by members of all national parties and organizations for the terminally ill president on one side and mockery and malice for Suha on the other side made ​​the deep dislike of the Palestinians clearly. Reason for the hostility is the property of the PLO in the billions, which was managed until his death of Arafat. Whether or not a will exists, is unclear. In 2005, she accepted an invitation from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and participated for the first time on a hajj in Mecca in part.

Tunisia, Malta

Then she and her daughter lived primarily in Tunis. In September 2006, both the Tunisian citizenship was conferred by the President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Together with his wife Leila Trabelsi, she founded the International School of Carthage. A year later it was in this context to the break between the two women, citizenship was revoked her on 7 August 2007 and was expelled from the country.

2007, the Commission moved into a house in the neighborhood ambassador to Malta and also lives there. The funds for the house and its management are provided by friends available.

After the revolution in Tunisia Tunis issued in October 2011, an international arrest warrant against them, to have embezzled funds on suspicion of the school project.

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