Amina Abbas (; née Al-Fanous; born 1942) is a Palestinian public figure who, as the wife of President

Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas (; born 15 November 1935), also known by the Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Mazen (, ), is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the President of the Palestinian National Authority, P ...

, is the current first lady of

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Public life

Abbas is the First Lady of Palestine. 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

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in 2008. On 28 February 2012, Abbas co-sponsored a charitable donation campaign, along with Turkish First Lady

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, for victims of an earthquake in

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Personal life

She married

in 1958. They have three sons. Her eldest son, Mazen Abbas, who ran a building company in

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, died in

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of a heart attack in 2002. Her second son, Yasser Abbas, is a businessman. Her youngest son, Tareq, is a business executive. She has eight grandchildren, six of whom are part of the Seeds of Peace initiative. In June 2014, Abbas underwent a surgical procedure at

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, a private clinic in

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. She was released two days after an operation on her leg.

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