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dalton99a

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5. Evidently Hanan Elatr from Egypt is the widow
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 09:28 AM
Nov 19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi

Khashoggi was described as an observant Muslim.[144]

Khashoggi was reportedly married and divorced at least three times, though there is contradictory information on to whom he was married and when. With his wife Rawia al-Tunisi he had four children: sons Salah and Abdullah and daughters Noha and Razan Jamal.[145][146][147] He was also married to Alaa Nassif.[4][148] On 2 June 2018, Khashoggi married Hanan Elatr, an Egyptian citizen, in an Islamic Ceremony in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. She obtained a certified, signed copy of the marriage certificate in July 2021 verifying the marriage.[149] Hanan also produced pictures of their ceremony, and one of Khashoggi's friends additionally confirmed he attended the wedding.[5][6]

Khashoggi's four children were all educated in the U.S. and two of them are U.S. citizens.[150] After his assassination, all four were banned from leaving Saudi Arabia.[151]

At the time of his death Khashoggi was planning to marry Hatice Cengiz, a 36-year-old Ph.D. candidate at a university in Istanbul. The couple had met in May 2018 during a conference in the city. Khashoggi, a Saudi national, visited the Saudi consulate on 2 October to obtain paperwork that would allow him to marry Cengiz.[152]

On 22 April 2018 an Emirati government agency hacked the phone of Jamal Khashoggi's then fiancée, Hanan Elatr, using the Pegasus spyware months before the Saudi dissident was murdered.[153]

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jamal-khashoggi-widow-hanan-elatr-khashoggi-interview-the-takeout/

Jamal Khashoggi's widow describes "7 years of hell" after Saudi journalist's killing, demands accountability from MBS

As Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made his first visit to the White House since the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the wife of the late journalist says she was "hurt" and "disappointed" by the remarks of President Trump and bin Salman in the Oval Office on Tuesday regarding Khashoggi's killing.

Reacting to the meeting between the two leaders, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi recounted what she said were "seven years of hell" in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday. She said that her husband did not deserve to be brutally killed over his criticism of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and that she has not received an apology or seen any actions of accountability from the crown prince.

"It destroyed my life. It inverted my life," Elatr told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett on "The Takeout."

Elatr came to the U.S. in August 2020 to apply for asylum because she feared for her safety, and was granted it in November 2023, according to CBS News' partner network BBC News. She had been living in Dubai, where she also grew up, prior to coming to the U.S.

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