Nejla Mustafa Abu-Izzedin (Arabic: نجلاء أبو عزِّ الدين; May 22, 1907[1] – 2008), also known as Najla Abu Izzeddin,[2] was a Lebanese anthropologist, educator, historian, and diplomat.

She attended the American School for Girls in Beirut, the Lycée Racine in Paris, and graduated from Vassar College in 1930.

Izzedin taught anthropology at a teachers' college in Baghdad after graduate school, and was the first woman to teach male students there.

[7][8] She was a delegate to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, held in San Francisco in 1945.

She lectured in the United States and Canada in the 1940s,[6][9] and after the publication of her book, The Arab World, Past, Present, and Future (1953), with sponsorship from the American Friends of the Middle East.