Entissar Amer ( ar, انتصار عامر; born 3 December 1956) is the current First Lady of Egypt, 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 mi ...

became the Sixth

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on 8 June 2014.

Education

Amer received her high school diploma from El Abbassia High School in 1977. She received a

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degree in accounting from

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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.Egypt’s next First Daughter? Meet Aya al-Sisi
/ref> Amer became the First Lady of Egypt upon her husband's appointment as the President of Egypt after the

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; which pushed for a

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throwing

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was appointed as an acting president during the transitional period from 3 July 2013 to 7 June 2014. Then, el-Sisi won the

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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 {{Egypt-bio-stub