 Hamida al-Attas

Hamida al-Attas (, "Ḥamīdah al-Attas"; born A'alia Ghanem, 1934) is the mother of Osama bin Laden.She came from a Syrian family of citrus farmers, with two brothers and another sister, living in two small coastal villages, Omraneya and Babryon, outside the port of Latakia.