Nadjah al-Attar ( Arabic نجاح العطار , born in 1933) is a Syrian politician, a statesman, the first woman politician in Syria who became minister (for many years served as minister of culture), the first woman in the Arab world who took the post vice president .
| Najah al-Attar نجاح العطار | |||||||
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| Head of the government | Adel Safar Mohammed Naji al-Otari | ||||||
| The president | Bashar al-Assad | ||||||
| Predecessor | Zuhair Masharka | ||||||
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| Head of the government | Abdel Rahman Khleifui Muhammad Ali Al-Halabi Abdul Rauf al-Qasm Mahmoud Zuabi | ||||||
| The president | Hafez Asad | ||||||
| Successor | Maha Kanut | ||||||
| Birth | January 10, 1933 (86 years) Damascus ,  Syria | ||||||
| Spouse | Majid al-Azzam | ||||||
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| Education | University of Damascus , University of Edinburgh | ||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||
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Biography
Personal life
Najah al-Attar was born and raised in Damascus , in the family of an aristocrat, an active supporter of the nationalist movement, a member of the Syrian uprising of 1925-1927 . In 1954 she graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Damascus University , over the next two years she studied pedagogy and Islamic studies [1] . Then she continued her studies at the University of Edinburgh , where she received a PhD degree in Arabic literature . Then Najah returned to Damascus , and in 1960 began working as a school teacher. Najah al-Attar is not a member of any political party. It is noteworthy that the brother of Najah - Issam al-Attar - for a long time (about 30 years) headed the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood organization. He is now in exile, living in Germany [2] , [3] .
Political career
In 1969, Najah al-Attar was appointed head of the literary translation department of the Ministry of Culture, and four years later, President Hafez Asad appointed her Minister of Culture. Najah al-Attar became the first Syrian appointed to the ministerial post. She remained the Minister of Culture of Syria with four prime ministers for 24 years, and was dismissed only in 2000 by the new Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa Mero [4] .
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, new Syrian President Bashar al-Asad appointed Najah al-Attar as director of the Center for Dialogue of Civilizations - an academic organization whose main activity is to organize research, debate and publish articles on global politics in the world after 9/11. In 2003–2010, she was a board member of the University of Kalamoun, one of the oldest Syrian private universities. She is also a member of the board of trustees of the Syrian Virtual University, the first project in Syria that provides online education [4] .
In 2006, Najah al-Attar was appointed Syria ’s second vice-president for culture [5] , becoming the first woman in the Arab world to be appointed to a similar post [2] .
Najah Al-Attar is a member of the Presidium of the Union of Arab Writers, as well as the Association of Literary Critics. She is the author of several books, in particular, in collaboration with the famous Syrian writer Hanna Mina [6] .
Bibliography [1] [4]
- War literature (ادب الحرب - Adab-ul-Harb ) - in collaboration with Hanna Mina , 1967.
- Who remembers those days? (من يذكر تلك الايام؟ - Maine Yazkur tilka-l-ayam? ) - in collaboration with Hanna Mina , 1974.
- To be or not to be? (نكون أو لا نكون - Nakun au la nakun? ), 1981.
- Questions of life (أسئلة الحياة - As'ilyat-l-haya), 1984.
- Multicolored words (كلمات ملونة - Kalimat mulyavvana ).
- Hemingway, Spain and the bulls (همينغوي, سباني والثيران - Chillingway, Isbania va-t-tyrant ).
- A revolutionary thought between March and October (الفكر الثوري بين اذار وأكتوبر - Al-Fikr at-Tauri Bane Azar wa Uktuber ).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Biography of Nadjah al-Attar at marefa.org (in Arabic)
- ↑ 1 2 Article about Najah al-Attar on the website of the Institute of Religion and Politics (not available link) . Circulation date October 24, 2011. Archived December 2, 2013.
- ↑ Sami Moubayed, Steel and Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria (1900-2000) , Seattle, 2006, pp. 97-98.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Ibid.
- Ria Syria's First Female Vice President Progress for Women Archived January 17, 2012.
- ↑ Sami Moubayed, Steel and Silk , pp. 97-98.