Haifa Najjar

Haifa Yousef Fadel Najjar (born Zarqa, 1959) is the Jordanian Minister of Culture. She was appointed as minister on 11 October 2021.[1][2][3]

Haifa Najjar
Minister of Culture
Assumed office
11 October 2021
MonarchAbdullah II of Jordan
Prime MinisterBisher Al-Khasawneh
Personal details
Born
Haifa Yousef Fadel Najjar

1959
Alma materUniversity of Jordan (B)
University of Buckingham (M)

Education

Najjar completed a degree in population studies at the University of Jordan before attaining a master's degree in transformational management at the University of Buckingham.[3] She was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of The King's Academy and a board member of the Greater Amman Municipality.[1] Najjar worked at the Ahliyyah School for Girls from 1984, and was Principal at both Ahliyyah and the Bishop's School for Girls since 2008.[1]

Honours

Najjar was awarded the Al-Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Prize (2001), the El-Hassan Bin Talal Award for Academic Excellence (2002), and the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) Award for the Promotion of International Education (2009). She received the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship from Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 2017 "for her outstanding contribution to education in Jordan and her exemplary leading role in Jordanian society as a Christian woman."[4][5]

References
  1. "Profiles of newly appointed ministers". Jordan News. 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  2. "Jordanian minister underlines strong cultural relations between Jordan, Qatar". Gulf-Times (in Arabic). 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  3. "Haifa Yousef Fadel Najjar". Guide To Jordanian Politics Life. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  4. "Archbishop of Canterbury's Awards ceremony held at Lambeth Palace". Archbishop of Canterbury. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  5. "The Archbishop of Canterbury's Awards: Citations in Alphabetical Order" (PDF). Archbishop of Canterbury. 9 June 2017. Archived from the original (pdf) on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2022.


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