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Aida Najjar

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Female
  • Born in: 1938
  • Age: 84
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Aida Ali Ismail al-Najjar (born December 12, 1938 in Lifta – died February 5, 2020 in Amman) was a Palestinian-Jordanian writer, researcher, and refugee. She was a member of the editorial board of "The Good Land" magazine, the Jordanian Writers Association, the Jerusalem Forum, the Arab Thought Forum, and the Diplomats Club.

During her working life, Al-Najjar worked for the United Nations Development Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations organizations (ESCWA, UNICEF, and UNESCO) and the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). She also worked in the Jordanian Ministries of Social Development, Information and Foreign Affairs.


Al-Najjar received her school education between the schools of Jerusalem and Amman, and she obtained the Mutrak certificate from Jordan in 1954, and the “Tawjihi” high school certificate from Egypt in 1955. She received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Cairo University in 1960, and a master’s degree in journalism and development from the University of Kansas 1965, and a doctorate in mass communication from Syracuse University in New York in 1975.


Al-Najjar has several literary books: “Daughters of Amman, the Days of Time: Memory of the School and the Road”, published in 2007, and “Al-Quds and the Shalaby Girl”, published in 2011. She has made several contributions to other topics, including: “The History of the Palestinian Press” published in 1985, and "Palestine Press and the National Movement in the Half-Century 1900-1948", published in 2005, and "Communication and Media in the Twentieth Century", published in 2007. It also has "Lefta, O Asilah.. an autumnal village" and "Azouz sings for love: Palestinian stories from a thousand." Story and story.


She died in Amman on February 5, 2020, at the age of 81.


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Achievements and Awards

Al-Najjar won the Best Book Award in the Humanities from Philadelphia University in 2005 for her book "Palestine Press and the National Movement in Half a Century".

  She also won the award for the best Arabic book in the thirteenth cultural festival held in Bahrain in 2006 for the same book.

 

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