Tahia Abdel Nasser (Arabic: تحية عبد الناصر; néeKazem [كاظم]; 1 March 1920[1] – 25 March 1992) was the First Lady of Egypt from 23 June 1956 to 28 September 1970[1] as the wife of Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom she had married in 1944. The couple had five children, two girls and three boys.
^Sullivan, Earl L. (1986). Women in Egyptian Public Life. Syracuse University Press. p. 84. ISBN978-0815623540. Her father was a successful tea merchant who had migrated from Iran when he was eighteen years old. Her mother was Egyptian, born in Tanta.
^Stephens, Robert Henry (1971). Nasser: A Political Biography. p. 61. ISBN978-0713901818. Kazem was the son of a successful tea merchant of Iranian nationality and a friend of Nasser's uncle, Khalil Hussein.
^Lacouture, Jean (1973). Nasser: a biography by Jean Lacouture. p. 49. ISBN978-0394466255. A few months later he was to meet a girl of Iranian origin, Tahia Kazem, through the interposition of Abdel Hakim Amer, a friend of her brother, a Cairene rug merchant." He would marry her.