Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Safia was born in 1965 to a Sunni Lebanese mother. Her father, Sheikh Taleb al-Souhail al-Tamimi, was himself also the leader of the Banu Tamim tribe and was a Shi'aa Muslim. He fled Iraq with his family to Lebanon after the Ba'ath Party coup of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr in 1968. Safia later lived in Amman, Washington and Paris.