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She was the first Arab woman to have held the post. Attar was born on 10 January and raised in Damascus as a member of a Sunni Muslim family. Attar is an accomplished translator and started teaching in high schools within Damascus after her return from Scotland, then worked in the Department of Translation of the Syrian Ministry of Culture. In , she was appointed minister of culture, [ 6 ] serving in that post until On 23 March , she was appointed vice president.

Although Attar was vice president and served as a long-term minister in Syria, a state largely controlled by the secular Ba'ath Party , her brother, Issam al-Attar , was the leader of the Damascus faction of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and lived in exile in Aachen, West Germany since the s, which saw a government persecution of various Islamist political movements.

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