She had served as a Minister of Public Information and for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
[1] Al-Farra was born in Kuwait, and graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communications at Yarmouk University in Jordan.
She was the youngest columnist in Jordan to write a daily column in Al-Arab Al-Yawm for four consecutive years.
[2] In 2002, Al-Farra joined the United Nations Department of Public Information and was nominated later as an Arabic spokesperson for the UN operations in Iraq.
Al-Farra was killed along with other United Nations staff members in the terrorist Canal Hotel bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, on 19 August 2003.