Najah al-Attar

Najah al-Attar (; born 10 January 1933) is a Syrian politician. She was the Vice President of Syria from 2006 to 2024. She was the first Arab woman to have held the role. Before, she was the Minister of Culture from 1976 to 2000.

Life
Attar was born on 10 January 1933 and raised in Damascus as a member of a Sunni Muslim family."Assad inner circle takes hard line in Syria conflict" , The Daily Star, 26 December 2012.Syria  Country Studies Her father was among the first Arab nationalist leaders who took part in the 1925-1927 Syrian revolt against the French Mandate of Syria. 

Attar studied at the University of Damascus and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom in 1958.

In 1976, she was made minister of culture, after returning from Scotland where she worked as a translator. She was culture minister until 2000. On 23 March 2006, she was appointed vice president. She left office on 8 December 2024, when the Assad regime fell.

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