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Revision as of 22:51, 23 June 2021

Najla El Mangoush
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Assumed office
March 15, 2021
PresidentMohamed al-Menfi
Prime MinisterAbdul Hamid Dbeibeh
Preceded byAbdulhadi Elhweg  (Al Bayda Cabinet)
Mohamed Taha Siala (Tripoli Cabinet)
Personal details
Born (1970-04-05) April 5, 1970 (age 54)
Benghazi,Libya
Political partyIndependent

Najla Mangoush or Najla Mohammed El Mangoush (Arabic: نجلاء محمد المنقوش) is a Libyan lawyer and politician.[1] She has been Libya's Foreign Minister in Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh's government since 15 March 2021.[2] Najla El Mangoush is Libya's first female Foreign Minister, as well as the fifth woman to hold the position of a Foreign Minister in the Arab World.[3]

Education

Trained as a lawyer at Benghazi University (then Garyounis University) and was later an assistant professor of law at the university. Later on she gained a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States of America, where she graduated from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at EMU university in Virginia.[1] She also has a PhD in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University.[1]

Career

As a conflict-resolution expert, she was the country representative in Libya for USIP (United States Institute of Peace).[1]

She has served as the Program Officer for Peace-building and Traditional Law at the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution in Arlington, Virginia and has a PhD in conflict analysis and resolution at George Mason university.[1]

During Libya’s 2011 revolution, she headed the National Transitional Council’s (NTC) Public Engagement Unit which dealt with civil society organisations. [1]

Foreign minister

On 15 March 2021 she became a foreign minister in Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh's cabinet, which is a part of the government of national unity. She is the first female Foreign Minister of Libya and the fifth to hold such a position in the Arab World after Naha Mint Mouknass (2009 - 2011) and Vatma Vall Mint Soueina (2015) of Mauritania, Fawzia Yusuf H. Adam (2012 - 2014) of Somalia and Asma Mohamed Abdalla (2019 - 2020) of Sudan.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Najla Mangoush – Libya's first female Foreign Minister". Libya Herald. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Najla Mangoush first female Libyan FM". alwasat.ly (in Arabic). 15 March 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Najla Mangoush – Libya's first female Foreign Minister". Libya Herald. Retrieved 2021-05-09.