Nasreena Ibrahim (born 20 December 1950) is a Maldivian activist who was the

first lady of the Maldives First Lady of the Maldives () is the title attributed to the wife of the President of the Maldives, president of the Maldives. The title of First Lady is utilized by the government and official publications. The country's current first lady is Sa ...

from November 1978 to November 2008, as the wife of president

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Maumoon Abdul Gayoom ( ; born Abdulla Maumoon Khairi; 29 December 1937) is a Maldivian politician, statesman, diplomat and scholar who served as the 3rd president of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008. He previously served as the Minister of Tra ...

. She is the longest tenured first lady in history of the Maldives. Raised in

Malé Malé is the capital and most populous city of the Maldives. With a population of 211,908 in 2022 within its administrative area and coterminous geographical area of , Malé is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. The city i ...

, Ibrahim studied from Cairo, Egypt, where she also met her future husband Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, and married in Cairo. The following year, she gave birth to twins, Dunya and Yumna, followed by Faris, and Ghassan, who was born during her tenure as first lady. During her time as First Lady, Ibrahim made public appearances but remained uninvolved in politics and never gave a speech or interview. Her only public statement was during an interview with Royston Ellis, where she discussed her husband Abdul Gayoom's life for his biography, '' A Man for All Islands''. Ibrahim was one of the founding members of the Society for Health Education.

Early life

Nasreena Ibrahim was born in 1950 in

, Maldive Islands (present-day

Maldives The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, abou ...

References

Living people 1950 births Maumoon Abdul Gayoom First ladies of the Maldives {{Maldives-politician-stub