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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Haifa Al-Agha was the Minister of Women's Affairs in Rami Hamdallah's third government between 2014 and 2019.
her life
Haifa Al-Agha was born in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, and completed her basic and secondary education at Haifa Secondary School in her city in 1968, while she obtained her bachelor's degree in public administration from the Higher Commercial Institute in Cairo in 1972, then she obtained a master's degree in educational guidance and counseling. From Oklahoma State University in the United States in 1978, then she obtained a doctorate in pedagogy from the same American University in 1991.
After obtaining her doctorate, Al-Agha worked as a lecturer and head of the Department of Education and Psychology at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. Then, years later, she assumed the position of Director General of Internal Control in the Palestinian Ministry of Education, and then Director General of Public Education in the Ministry, until she was appointed Minister of Women’s Affairs in April. April of 2014.
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