Naglaa Mahmoud | |
Native Name: | Arabic: نجلاء على محمود |
Order1: | First Lady of Egypt |
Term Label1: | In role |
Predecessor1: | Suzanne Mubarak |
President1: | Mohamed Morsi |
Successor1: | Entissar Amer |
Birth Date: | 4 July 1962 |
Birth Place: | Ain Shams, Egypt |
Children: | 5, including Abdullah |
Birthname: | Naglaa Ali Mahmoud |
Term Start1: | 30 June 2012 |
Term End1: | 3 July 2013 |
Naglaa Ali Mahmoud (Arabic: نجلاء على محمود, pronounced as /arz/ pronounced as /arz/; 4 July 1962) is the widow and cousin of the fifth President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi and was First Lady from 2012 to 2013.[1] [2]
Naglaa rejected the title of First Lady, preferring to be called "First Servant", the "president's wife", or "Umm Ahmed", a traditional honorific (kunya) which means mother of Ahmed, her oldest son.[1] [3]
Naglaa married former president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi in 1979 when she was a seventeen-year-old student.[4] Naglaa and Morsi have five children, including Abdullah and six grandchildren.[4]