Aisha Naguib

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Aisha Labib, known as Aisha Naguib, was the wife of Mohamed Naguib, Egypt’s first president after the 1952 Revolution. She served as First Lady from 18 June 1953 to 14 November 1954. She was Naguib’s second wife, married in 1934 after his divorce from his first wife. Aisha came from the Labib family; her father was a cavalry commander and her brother Mahmoud Labib was an engineer. The couple lived in Helmiyat Al-Zeitoun before and during their marriage. As First Lady, she accompanied her husband to receive visiting heads of state and was known as Aisha Hanim. They had three sons: Farouk, Ali, and Youssef. After Naguib's presidency ended, he was kept under unofficial house arrest in a Cairo villa, and Aisha moved with him. Later in life she struggled with obesity. She died in 1971, two years after her son Ali’s death in an accident in Germany.