Who Is Suha Arafat?

Süha Arafat says she has lived two lives. One in which she was a Palestinian Christian from a bourgeoisie family who studied at a convent in Jerusalem. Her second life began when she took on the Muslim religion and married Palestine's legendary leader Yaser Arafat. "My childhood and my youth were my first life. Arafat became my second. Our daughter is proud to bear her father's name, however it is an extremely difficult life. My life with him was hard.