Lujaina Mohsin Haider Darwish ( ar, لجينة محسن درويش, born 23 June 1969) is an Omani politician. Along with Rahila Al Riyami, she was one of the first two women to be directly elected to the Consultative Assembly in 2000. In 2015 she was appointed to the

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. Darwish is also the chairperson of ITICS at Mohsin Haider Darwish.

Biography

Born in 1969, Darwish was the eldest of three daughters of the businessman Mohsin Haider Darwish;To be on Forbes list means growing responsibility for Oman's Lujaina Darwish
Times of Oman, 16 October 2016 her sister Areej also became a businesswoman. She attended

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, where she earned a degree in English literature. She subsequently became a lecturer at the university, before joining the family business. In 2000 she was one of fifteen female candidates in the

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.Omani woman who blazed a trail into the State Council passes away
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, she was one of two women elected. She was re-elected to the Assembly in

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, but lost her seat in the

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. During her time in the Shura Council she also became president of Sidab Football Club, the second woman in the Arab world to head a football club. She later became deputy chair of Mohsin Haider Darwish LLC,Deputy Chairperson
Mohsin Haider Darwish LLC and regularly featured in lists of the most powerful Arab businesswomen published by ''

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''.EXCLUSIVE: Honoured to be on Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women List, says Lujaina Mohsin Darwish
The Arabian Stories, 8 February 2020 In 2015 she was appointed to the

. She is also currently a member of the board of trustees at Al-Zahra College for Women.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Darwish, Lujaina Mohsin 1969 births Living people Sultan Qaboos University alumni Academic staff of Sultan Qaboos University Members of the Consultative Assembly (Oman) Members of the Council of State (Oman) 21st-century Omani women politicians 21st-century Omani politicians