Wafah Dufour (born 1979) is an Arab American singer-songwriter. Her father is Saudi Arabian, and her mother is Swiss/Persian. She is one of the 300 nieces and nephews of Osama bin Laden, but has distanced herself from him. In an interview with the British newspaper Observer she stated to never have met him, which she stressed again in an interview with American journalist Barbara Walters in the news show 20/20, where she appeared on June 3, 2005 [1]. To further distance herself from her uncle, she also changed her birth name to her mother's maiden name, Dufour, to avoid having the negative sentiments towards Osama bin Laden directed at her.
Dufour was born in California, but spent the early part of her life in Saudi Arabia. At the age of 10, her mother left her father, and Dufour moved to Switzerland with her mother. She went to Columbia Law School in the United States, and lived in Manhattan until around the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, but was staying in Geneva at the time of the attacks. She currently lives in New York City and is working on her first album. She cites Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, and Tracy Chapman as her influences.
She has publically denounced her uncle and any ties to Islamist extremism. Her father, Yeslam Binladin, hasn't spoken to her since she was 15 because she refused to follow the traditional Saudi path of arranged marriage; however, like her, he denounced bin Laden's actions, even changing the spelling of his last name. Her mother, Carmen Bin Ladin, wrote an autobiography, Inside the Kingdom (ISBN 0446694886), recounting her life in the Bin Laden family and how she managed to keep her daughters in her custody.
In December 2005, Dufour posed in a provocative photographic spread for GQ magazine.[2]
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