Asma Khader | |
Birth Date: | 1952 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Zababdeh, Palestine |
Death Place: | Amman, Jordan |
Nationality: | Jordanian |
Office: | Minister of Culture |
Term Start: | 25 October 2004 |
Term End: | 4 May 2005 |
Predecessor: | Haider Mahmoud |
Office2: | Member of the Senate of Jordan |
Term Start2: | 23 April 2014 |
Term End2: | 25 October 2015 |
Asma Khader (Arabic: أسمى خضر; 25 January 1952 – 20 December 2021) was a lawyer, devoted feminist, women's rights and human rights activist and a Jordanian politician. She served as the first government spokesperson in Jordan, a Minister of Culture from 2004 to 2005, and a member of the Senate from 2014 to 2015.[1] Khader died from pancreatic cancer on 20 December 2021, at the age of 69 in Amman.[2]