Susanne Mubarak, wife of President Hosni Mubarak, is an unusual subject for a circulating-weight coin — this issue commemorates her patronage of the Egyptian National Reading Festival, a literacy initiative she championed through the Suzanne Mubarak Women of Egypt Association. Within a year of this coin's release, Hosni Mubarak had been deposed during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, and pieces bearing her name quietly disappeared from official promotion.
Susanne Mubarak, wife of President Hosni Mubarak, is an unusual subject for a circulating-weight coin — this issue commemorates her patronage of the Egyptian National Reading Festival, a literacy initiative she championed through the Suzanne Mubarak Women of Egypt Association. Within a year of this coin's release, Hosni Mubarak had been deposed during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, and pieces bearing her name quietly disappeared from official promotion.