Jamila Saidam

Jamila Ahmed Khamis Saidam (, 1947 – 30 July 2011), also known as Umm Sabri, was a Palestinian politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Council in 1996.

Biography Saidam was born in the village of Aqir in 1947. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War her family fled to Rafah in the Gaza Strip, where she attended a UNWRA primary school and then secondary school in Rafah. and Saidam graduated from Damascus University in 1981. In 1995 she was appointed Director General of Social Insurance at the Ministry of Labour. During her term in office, she chaired the Refugee Committee from 2005 to 2006, and was a member of the Economic and Human Rights committees.

She died in Ramallah in July 2011. Her son Sabri later served as Minister of Education.