Sumaya or Soumaya (

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Sumaya Farhat Naser Sumaya Farhat Naser ( ar, سمية فرحات ناصر‎, born 11 June 1948 in Bir Zeit) is a Palestinian Christian peace activist in the West Bank. She attended ''Talitha Kumi'', a boarding school in Beit Jala which was founded by Lutheran ...

(born 1948), Palestinian peace activist *

Princess Sumaya bint Hassan Princess Sumaya bint Hassan (born 14 May 1971) is a princess of Jordan. Early life Sumaya was born in Amman on 14 May 1971, to Prince Hassan bin Talal and Princess Sarvath al-Hassan. Her mother was of Pakistani-Bengali descent. She received h ...

(born 1971), princess of Jordan *

Soumaya Khalifa Soumaya Khalifa is the founder and executive director of the ''Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta''. She is an American Muslim of Egyptian origin, with a career in Human Resources and a consulting practice specializing in intercultural communicati ...

, American executive of Egyptian origin *

Sumayyah bint Khayyat Sumayyah bint Khabbāṭ ( ar, سُمَيَّة ٱبْنَت خَبَّاط) or Sumayyah bint Khayyāṭ (; c. 550 – 615 CE / 72 BH – 7 BH), was the mother of Ammar ibn Yasir and first member of the ''Ummah'' (Community) of the Islamic pro ...

(died 615), first female Muslim martyr * Soumaya Naamane Guessous, Moroccan sociologist *

Soumaya Keynes Soumaya Anne Keynes (born 1 August 1989) is a British journalist, economist, the Britain economics editor at ''The Economist'' magazine, and the co-host of a podcast covering economic trade called Trade Talks. Her work at ''The Economist'' was fo ...

(born 1989), British economist and member of the Keynes family {{given name, cat=none Arabic feminine given names