Princess Sana'a Asem (née Sana Kalimat; born 16 November 1960) is a
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
ian princess due to her marriage to
Prince Asim bin Nayef and she has
Circassian origin. She is the daughter of
Adnan Mawloud Kalimat (d. on 12 September 2019), leader of the
Circassians tribal council of Jordan and
mukhtar
A mukhtar ( ar, مختار, mukhtār, chosen one; el, μουχτάρης) is a village chief in the Levant: "an old institution that goes back to the time of the Ottoman rule". According to Amir S. Cheshin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed, the muk ...
of the Circassians in the city of Amman.
Education
She has a
Bachelor of Arts
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in
English Literature and
Translation
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from the
University of Petra
University of Petra is a private university in Amman, Jordan. The University offers the Bachelor and Master Program and has more than 33 nationalities from Arab and foreign countries. The University is located on the airport road and features a ...
in
Amman.
Activities
She has several activities in the capital
Amman, where she attended the visit of
King Abdullah II
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...
to the Jordanian Circassians at
The Circassian Charitable Society
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with her husband,
Prince Asim bin Nayef. Moreover she also sponsors many Jordanian events, activities and conferences.
Marriage and children
Princess Sana married Jordan's
Prince Asem bin Nayef
Prince Asem bin Nayef ( ar, الأمير عاصم بن نايف; born 27 April 1948) is the son of Prince Nayef bin Abdullah (a younger son of Abdullah I of Jordan) and Princess Mihrimah Sultan (granddaughter of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Em ...
on 6 January 1986. Together, they have three children:
*
Princess Salha (born 14 June 1987), on 4 April 2011 she married
Mohammad Hashim Haj-Hassan.
*
Princess Nejla (born 9 May 1988), on 23 October 2014 she married
Nasser Osama Talhouni
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, . (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-re ...
.
*
Prince Nayef
Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ar, نايف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, ''Nāyif ibn ‘Abd al ‘Azīz Āl Su‘ūd''; 1934 – 16 June 2012) was the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and deputy prime minister from October 2011 and the min ...
(born 22 January 1998), on 13 April 2021 he married
Sharif
Sharīf ( ar, شريف, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef or sherif, feminine sharīfa (), plural ashrāf (), shurafāʾ (), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, f ...
a
Farah Alluhaymaq
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* Farah (name)
* Farah (actress) (born 1966), Indian actress
* Farah, Afghanistan, a city in western Afghanistan on the Farah River
* Farah, India, a town in Uttar Pradesh, India
* Farah Province, Afghanistan
* Farah River, ...
.
References
1960 births
People from Amman
House of Hashim
Living people
Jordanian princesses
Jordanian people of Circassian descent
Princesses by marriage
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