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 | |
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Minister of Culture | |
Assumed office 11 October 2021 | |
Monarch | Abdullah II of Jordan |
Prime Minister | Bisher Al-Khasawneh |
Personal details | |
Born | Haifa Yousef Fadel Najjar 1959 |
Alma mater | University 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
- "Profiles of newly appointed ministers". Jordan News. 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- "Jordanian minister underlines strong cultural relations between Jordan, Qatar". Gulf-Times (in Arabic). 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- "Haifa Yousef Fadel Najjar". Guide To Jordanian Politics Life. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- "Archbishop of Canterbury's Awards ceremony held at Lambeth Palace". Archbishop of Canterbury. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- "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.