Najah al-Attar (Arabic: نجاح العطار; born 10 January 1933) is a Syrian politician who served as the vice president of Syria from 2006 to 2024.
Attar was born on 10 January 1933 and raised in Damascus as a member of a Sunni Muslim family.
[3][4][5] Her father was among the first Arab nationalist leaders who took part in the 1925-1927 Syrian revolt against the French Mandate of Syria.
[6] She also received a number of certificates then in international relations and in literary and art criticism.
[3] Although Attar was vice president and served as a long-term minister in Syria, a state largely controlled by the secular Ba'ath Party, her brother, Issam al-Attar, was the leader of the Damascus faction of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and lived in exile in Aachen, West Germany since the 1970s, which saw a government persecution of various Islamist political movements.