Aida Najjar

Aida Najjar (Arabic: عايدة النجار) (12 December 1938 – 5 February 2020) was a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and researcher.^[1]

Aida Najjar
عايدة النجار
Born	(1938-12-12)12 December 1938 Lifta, Palestine
Died	5 February 2020(2020-02-05) (aged 81) Amman, Jordan
Other names	Aida Ali Ismail Najjar
Occupation(s)	Writer and researcher

Life

Najjar was born in Lifta on 12 December 1938. She obtained her bachelor from Cairo University in 1960, the master from the University of Kansas in 1965 and PhD from Syracuse University in 1975. The title of her PhD thesis is The Arabic Press and Nationalism in Palestine, 1920-1948.^[2] She worked at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and FAO.^[1]

Najjar wrote several literary and non-literary books. The most prominent of these books are "Al-Quds and the Shalabiyya girl" and "History of the Palestinian Press".^[3][4]

Death

On 5 February 2020, Najjar died in Amman, Jordan.^[5]

References

1. الكوري, عمان-فاتن (5 February 2020). "الموت يغيب الباحثة الدكتورة عايدة النجار". Alrai (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
2. Aida Ali Najjar (1975). The Arabic Press and Nationalism in Palestine, 1920-1948 (PhD thesis). Syracuse University. ISBN 9781083851468. ProQuest 288060869.
3. "الدكتورة عايدة النجار". مجلة جنى. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
4. "عايدة النجّار". وزارة الثقافة (in Arabic). 26 October 2016. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
5. "رحيل الكاتبة والإعلامية الفلسطينية الأردنية عايدة النجار عن 81 عاما". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.

External links

• Media related to Aida Najjar at Wikimedia Commons