Dia Nader de El-Andari

Dia Nader de El-Andari (born 1950) is a Lebanese Venezuelan politician and diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Venezuela to Syria in 2006―2009 and Chargée d'affaires of the Embassy of Venezuela in Serbia in 2011–2019.

Biography Dia Nader de El-Andari was born in 1950 in Beirut, Lebanon. At the age of seventeen, she came to study in USSR and graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Peoples' Friendship University, majoring in physics in 1972. In 1975–1978, she studied at the graduate school of the University of Friendship of Peoples and in 1978 she defended her thesis. Afterwards, she spoke very warmly about the years she spent in USSR: "My father sent me here for he wanted me to learn how to love my homeland. I learned about friendship and brotherhood, and I think that his dream came true", she said in an interview. After returning to Venezuela she had worked at the University of Zulia for more than twenty years.

Dia Nader de El-Andari is a widow and has three children.

She is fluent in Spanish, Arabic, Russian and English.