Meet Mo Salah's scientist wife who avoids the limelight but has been by his side since they were children

Daily Mail​

26-05-2025

As Liverpool fans rejoiced at Anfield after their football club won the Premier League trophy on Sunday, nobody was prouder than Mohamed Salah 's wife, Magi Salah.
The Egyptian-born footballer, 32, was awarded the Golden Boot for the fourth time after scoring 29 goals in his 38 league appearances - putting him in the history books alongside legend Thierry Henry.
After seeing all of his hard work pay off, supportive wife Magi and their two daughters, Makka, 10, and Kayan, five, rushed onto the pitch to give the beloved husband and father a heartfelt cuddle.
But these public appearances are usually limited as Magi shies away from the limelight, valuing her privacy.
The 31-year-old likes to keep her family life under wraps and while many other WAGs are used to having active social media profiles with thousands of followers in tow, Magi does not appear to have any public online presence.
Mohamed - known more commonly as Mo - married his childhood sweetheart in 2013, when she was just 19 years old in a small Islamic ceremony and they had their first daughter Makka a year later.
The couple grew up in the same place, a small farming village of Nagrig, and both attended the Mohamed Eyad Al-Tantawi School, where their friendship as teenagers slowly blossomed into love.
After completing her qualifications at school, Magi then went on to pursue biotechnology at Alexandria University, following her passion for science.
Both of her parents come from a teaching background and encouraged both Magi, her twin sister Mohab and her siblings Mahy and Miriam, to work hard in their education.
Although the mother-of-two is trained professionally as a biotechnician, she now dabbles in philanthropy alongside her husband.
Magi and Mo often travel back to Nagrig every Ramadan to celebrate the Muslim event with their loved ones and also to give back to their community.
The pair have provided financial support to their village in the form of donating food, appliances, medical equipment, along with funding school projects, hospitals and clean water facilities.
But while Mo - who is thought to earn £380,000 a week - is known to be a more public figure, Magi is happy to take a back seat and help those less fortunate quietly.
The parents moved to Merseyside after Mo changed clubs for a then-record contract of £39million in 2017.
The family-of-four now live in mansion in the northern city and are proud to call it 'home', adding that his wife felt content with where they had put down their roots.
'They feel at home,' Mo said. 'They were very happy, Magi and the kids, they were very happy that we're staying another two years. It feels like home so everyone was happy.'
The brood went on a trip to Disney last November, with Mo sharing images of his wife and children clad with Mickey ears enjoying rides and running around the theme park.
The Salah brood reside in the same neighbourhood as Manchester City's Erling Haaland in the affluent county of Cheshire.
Mo has joked in the past that the house 'looks like a hospital' - much to the dismay of Magi - as it is kitted out with two gym rooms and also has cryotherapy facilities and a hyperbaric chamber.
Cryotherapy is the use of ice-led machines to decrease swelling by constricting blood vessels, while a hyperbaric chamber has air pressure levels three times higher than normal conditions to help the lungs spread more oxygen around the body.
But while Mo admits that he is always looking to improve his physical condition, it can sometimes get in the way of time with Magi.
'I am constantly looking to improve my physical condition,' he once told France Football.
'It's true that I like to say that my house looks like a hospital, [but] my wife doesn't like that! [She] says that I spend more time with my machines than with her!'
For Makka's birthday, the loving parents decorated one of their rooms full of pale pink balloons as they gathered around the cake to mark her special day
Magi features on Mo's Instagram feed in sweet family snaps a handful of times each year, usually at Christmas.
The pair engage in the Christian holiday by decorating a tree and posing in adorable matching pyjamas, despite both being devout Muslims, which causes some backlash from religious fans.
However, when Mo does post his family, many comments are about rarely-seen Magi, with some followers calling her 'stunning' and 'gorgeous'.
The brood went on a trip to Disney last November, with Mo sharing images of his wife and children clad with Mickey ears enjoying rides and running around the theme park.
Another shows the Salah household posing for a selfie seemingly dressed up as pirates for a party.
Others include the family-of-four celebrating milestone events, such as Mo's 30th birthday spent on a beach vacation.
For Makka's birthday, the loving parents decorated one of their rooms full of pale pink balloons as they gathered around the cake to mark her special day.
In an interview with Liverpool last year, Mo said his daughters were starting to pick up the Scouse accent after spending the majority of their lives in the city.
He said: 'My kids are Scousers now! Their language is like the accent as well. So, it's a big change.'
Like her father, their eldest daughter Makka is also seemingly heading for a life in the spotlight, after starring in the hit Egyptian series 'Kamel El Adad'.
Makka had a small role and played one of the children who had been playfully locked in a box by her peers, according to the Liverpool Echo.