Amina Abbas
{{short description|First Lady of Palestine}}
{{Expand Arabic|أمينة عباس|date=November 2024}}
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| office = First Lady of the State of Palestine
| term_label = In role
| term_start = 8 May 2005
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| president = Mahmoud Abbas
| predecessor = Suha Arafat
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| office2 = First Lady of the Palestinian National Authority
| term_label2 = In role
| term_start2 = 15 January 2005
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| president2 = Mahmoud Abbas
| predecessor2 = Suha Arafat
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| birth_name = Amina Khaled Mustafa Al-Fanous
| birth_date = 1942
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| spouse = Mahmoud Abbas (1958–present)
| children = 3 (including Yasser Abbas)
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| party = Fatah
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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.
Public life
Abbas is the First Lady of Palestine.{{Cite web |date=2009-06-04 |title=First Lady of Palestine {{!}} Current Leader |url=https://planetrulers.com/palestine-first-lady/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Current Heads of State & Dictators}} She has served as Palestine's first lady since her husband was elected president in 2005.
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|date=November 2024}}
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|date=November 2024}}
Personal life
She married Mahmoud Abbas in 1958.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} They have three sons.{{Cite journal |last=Ben-Menachem |first=Yoni |date=September 14, 2016 |title=The Businesses of Mahmoud Abbas and His Sons |url=https://jcpa.org/article/the-businesses-of-mahmoud-abbas-and-his-sons/ |journal=Jerusalem Issue Briefs |volume=16 |issue=15 |via=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs}} Her eldest son, Mazen Abbas, who ran a building company in Doha, died in Qatar of a heart attack in 2002.{{cite news |url=https://www.albawaba.com/news/eldest-son-plo-no-2-dies |title=Eldest son of PLO no. 2 dies |date=16 June 2002 |newspaper=Al Bawaba |access-date=3 September 2024}} Her second son, Yasser Abbas, is a businessman.{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/PA-officials-scandalized-at-disclosure-by-Abbass-son-of-vast-personal-fortune |title=PA officials scandalised at disclosure by Abbas's son of vast personal fortune |first=Khaled |last=Abu Toameh |date=16 April 2009 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=3 September 2024}} Her youngest son, Tareq, is a business executive. She has eight grandchildren, six of whom are part of the Seeds of Peace initiative.{{cite web |url=http://thewisdomdaily.com/why-palestinia-president-mahmoud-abbas-grandchildren-give-him-hope/ |title=Why Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Grandchildren Give Him Hope |first=Irwin |last=Kula |author-link=Irwin Kula |date=25 September 2013 |website=The Wisdom Daily |access-date=26 January 2020}}
In June 2014, Abbas underwent a surgical procedure at Assuta Medical Center, a private clinic in Ramat HaHayal in Tel Aviv.{{Cite news |last=Winer |first=Stuart |date=June 15, 2014 |title=Mahmoud Abbas’s wife undergoes surgery in Israel |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/mahmoud-abbass-wife-undergoes-surgery-in-israel/ |work=The Times of Israel}}{{Cite web |last=Press |first=Viva Sarah |date=2014-06-15 |title=Mahmud Abbas's wife hospitalized in Tel Aviv |url=https://www.israel21c.org/abu-mazens-wife-hospitalized-in-tel-aviv/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=ISRAEL21c |language=en-US}} She was released two days after an operation on her leg.{{Cite web |last=June 2014 |first= |date=June 15, 2014 |title=Palestinian President's Wife Treated in Israel Hospital |url=https://naharnet.com/stories/en/135064-palestinian-president-s-wife-treated-in-israel-hospital |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Naharnet}}{{Cite web |date=2014-06-15 |title=Wife of Palestinian Authority President undergoes surgery in Tel Aviv |url=https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/wife-of-palestinian-authority-president-undergoes-surgery-in-tel-aviv-359392 |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=The Jerusalem Post |language=en}}
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