1. Samira Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian progressive author, as well as the founder of Al Sharkiah magazine.
10 Facts About Samira Khashoggi
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Samira Khashoggi was the sister of the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi.
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Samira Khashoggi was the first wife of Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and the mother of filmmaker Dodi Al-Fayed.
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Samira Khashoggi died of a heart attack in 1986 at the age of 51.
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Samira Khashoggi's books include Wadda't Amali, Thekrayat Dam'ah, Wara' Aldabab, Qatrat Min ad-Dumu' and Bariq Aynaik.
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In 1962, Samira Khashoggi began to head a women's welfare association, Al Nahda, which was based in Riyadh and was the first organization targeted towards women in Saudi Arabia.
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Samira Khashoggi was one of the Saudi women who supported the education of girls.
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Samira Khashoggi met Mohamed Al Fayed on the beach in Alexandria through her brother, Saudi billionaire Adnan Samira Khashoggi, and they married in 1954.
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Samira Khashoggi separated from Al Fayed just months after Dodi's birth and returned to Saudi Arabia.
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Samira Khashoggi then married Saudi ambassador Anas Yassin, and had her second child, Jumana Yassin, who is the editor in chief of Al Sharkiah magazine.