The Jordanian Writers Association mourned the Palestinian-Jordanian writer and media outlet, Dr. Aida Al-Najjar, who died today, Wednesday, at the age of 81.
"Farewell, my beloved aunt Aida, how much I will miss you," wrote her niece, writer Taghreed Al-Najjar, on her Facebook page.
Taghreed said that the funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon from the Sahab Cemetery Mosque (one of the regions of the capital Amman governorate), while the funeral will be held on the same evening in the headquarters of the Arab Lifta Association for Charitable Work in the capital Amman.
Aida was born in Lifta village in Jerusalem in December 1938 and left with her family to Jordan in 1948, and obtained her university degree from Cairo in sociology in 1960.
She also obtained a Master’s degree in Journalism and Development from the University of Kansas in the United States, and a PhD in Mass Communication from Syracuse University in New York.
She worked with the United Nations Development Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and also helped found the Research Division of the Kuwait News Agency. In Jordan, she worked in the field of sustainable development and strategic planning in the ministries of information, foreign affairs, and social development.
She was writing articles in some Arab newspapers and published several books, including "Jerusalem and the Shalaby Girl" and "Turnip, O Asilah ... Autumn of a Village" and "Azouz Sings for Love: Palestinian Stories from a Thousand Stories and Story" and "Amman between Spinning and Working" and " The daughters of Amman in the days of Zaman "and" the Palestinian press and the national movement in half a century ".