Suzanne Saleh Thabet was born in Al Minya Governorate, located on the Nile River about 250 kilometres to the south of Cairo, on 28 February 1941.

[1] Her parents married in London in 1934, when Thabet was a medical student at Cardiff University and Palmer was a nurse working at The Infirmary on Camden Road, Islington.

[6][8] Her thesis is entitled "Social Action Research in Urban Egypt: Case study of primary school upgrading in Bulaq".

[citation needed] Mubarak's activities in projects relating to human trafficking and family affairs became prominent in Egypt.

In March 2008, Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Eissa was arrested for reporting on Hosni Mubarak's health problems in August 2007.