About Aida Najjar
Lived 1938 – 2020 (aged 81). Aida Najjar was a Jordanian writer and researcher.
Aida Najjar (12 December 1938 – 5 February 2020) was a Palestinian-Jordanian 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. She worked at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and FAO.
Death On 5 February 2020, Najjar died in Amman, Jordan.
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Writer and researcher Palestinian-Jordanian
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Aida Najjar was born on 12 December 1938 in Lifta.
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Aida Najjar died on 5 February 2020 in Amman.
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Aida Najjar was a writer and researcher.
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