Sumaya Farhat Naser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sumaya Farhat Naser

Palestinian peace activist

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1948

Place of Birth: Birzeit, State of Palestine

Profession: writer, author, peace activist

Nationality: State of Palestine

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Sumaya Farhat Naser (Arabic: ???? ????? ??????, born 11 June 1948 in Bir Zeit) is a Palestinian Christian peace activist in the West Bank. She attended Talitha Kumi, a boarding school in Beit Jala which was founded by Lutheran deaconesses in the 19th century.
After gaining her university entrance qualification, she studied biology, geography and education at the University of Hamburg, Germany and received a doctor's degree in applied botany. Between 1982 and 1997 she was a university lecturer in botany and ecology at the Palestinian Birzeit University north of Ramallah.
Between 1997 and 2001 she was the manager of the Palestinian Jerusalem Center for Women, working for peace together with the Israeli group Bat Shalom. Sumaya Farhat-Naser is known for her clear expressions of opinion in the media, and particularly for her various projects, in which she motivates Palestinian women to work on a peaceful resolution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.