Asma Khader

Asma Khader (أسمى خضر; 25 January 1952 – 20 December 2021) was a lawyer, devoted feminist, women's rights and human rights activist and a Jordanian politician. She served as the first government spokesperson in Jordan, a Minister of Culture from 2004 to 2005, and a member of the Senate from 2014 to 2015. Khader died from pancreatic cancer on 20 December 2021, at the age of 69 in Amman.