Entissar Amer ( ar, انتصار عامر; born 3 December 1956) is the current
First Lady of Egypt
First Lady of Egypt ( ar, سيدة مصر الأولى) is the unofficial title of the wife of the president of Egypt.
History
Naglaa Mahmoud, wife of former president Mohamed Morsi (2012–2013), rejected the title of First Lady, preferring to ...
, since her husband
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi; (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. Before retiring as a general in the Egyptian mil ...
became the
Sixth President of Egypt
The president of Egypt is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointer of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyp ...
on 8 June 2014.
Education
Amer received her high school diploma from El Abbassia High School in 1977. She received a
BCom
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degree in accounting from
Ain Shams University
Ain Shams University ( ar, جامعة عين شمس) is a public university located in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 1950, the university provides education at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels.
History
Ain Shams University was fou ...
.
Family
Amer
married her cousin el-Sisi in 1977 after el-Sisi graduated from the Military Academy.
They have three sons and one daughter:
Mahmoud, Mostafa, Hassan and Aya.
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Amer became the First Lady of Egypt upon her husband's appointment as the President of Egypt after the June 2013 Egyptian protests
The 30 June protests occurred in Egypt on 30 June 2013, marking the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi's inauguration as president. The events ended with the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état after mass protests across Egypt demanding the immediat ...
; which pushed for a military coup
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War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such ...
throwing Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012
Adly Mansour
Adly Mahmoud Mansour ( ar, عدلى محمود منصور ; born 23 December 1945) is an Egyptian judge and politician who served as the president (or chief justice) of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt. He also served as interim ...
was appointed as an acting president during the transitional period from 3 July 2013 to 7 June 2014. Then, el-Sisi won the presidential election
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Albania
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Chile
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that was held afterward, and took the oath of office on 8 June 2014.
Corruption allegation
An Egyptian who was formerly a military contractor, Mohamed Ali, alleged that Entissar Amer was part of "rampant corruption" involving military officials and Sisi's relatives. Street protests took place in response to Ali's claims about Amer and her husband.
References
20th-century Egyptian women
21st-century Egyptian women
1956 births
Ain Shams University alumni
First Ladies of Egypt
Living people
El-Sisi family
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