Yasser arafat biography wikipedia

Widow of Yasser Arafat

Suha Arafat (Arabic: سهى عرفات; born Suha Daoud Tawil (Arabic: سهى داود الطويل) on 17 July 1963) is the widow of former Palestinian National Authority president Yasser Arafat.

Early life and education

Suha was born in Jerusalem on 17 July 1963 into an affluent Roman Catholic^[1][2][3] family who lived in Nablus and then Ramallah (both cities under Jordanian rule at the time).^[4][5] Suha's father Daoud Tawil, an Oxford-educated^[6] banker,^[7] was born in Jaffa (now part of Tel Aviv).

Daoud Tawil had business both in the West Bank and Jordan.^[8]

Suha's mother, Raymonda Hawa Tawil, born in Acre, is a member of the Hawa family of Acre, prominent property owners in the Haifa area.^[8] She was a poet and writer.

She became a Palestinian political activist after 1967 and was arrested several times by the Israelis, making her a media star.^[8] She