Jumana Ghunaimat
Jumana Ghunaimat (; born 4 December 1973) is a Jordanian journalist and media figure, and is the former Minister of State for Media Affairs and Government Spokesperson in Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz's cabinet on 14 June 2018. She currently occupies the position of Jordan's ambassador to Morocco. Personal life Ghunaimat was born and raised in Al-Salt to a family of nine boys and three girls. Her father is retired major general and former deputy Pasha Suleiman Ali Ghunaimat, and her mother Hind Abdel Fattah Ghunaimat is a retired teacher. Ghunaimat moved between Baghdad and Amman when her father was a military attaché in Iraq, and studied at the model school located in Salt, completing secondary studies there. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Jordan, obtained in June 1996. Ghunaimat has two children, a daughter named Wassan and a son named Shas. Career Ghunaimat started her career in 1996 in Al-Raiy newspaper in the advertising department, and then she took over the poverty pockets file. In 2006, she was offered a job in the Jordanian newspaper "Al-Sijel", in addition to her work in "Al-Raiy", with professors Mustafa Al-Hamarneh and George Hawatmeh. Ghunaimat also supported women and poor citizens in Jordanian society. In 2008, she made the decision to leave Al-Raiy newspaper, and then moved to Al-Ghad newspaper at the end of 2008 as director of the economic page. She was then appointed editor-in-chief in 2012, by a decision of the publisher of Al-Ghad, the Jordanian businessman and investor Muhammad Alyan, to be the sixth editor-in-chief to occupy this position, which was launched in 2004. She is the first woman to receive the position of editor-in-chief of an Arab newspaper. Ghunaimat wrote for a number of websites, and worked as an economic analyst for a number of local and Arab visual media, including: Al Arabiya TV, Al Jazeera, Jordan TV, and Roya TV. She submitted several papers after leaving the ministry, especially regarding the coronavirus pandemic, where she spoke about media policies in light of the that pandemic. She continued to defend social media. On June 14, 2018, she was appointed as minister of media affairs in the government of Dr. Omar Razzaz, taking the constitutional oath before the Jordanian monarch at Al Husseiniya Palace in Amman. Until November 6, 2019 after Prime Minister Omar Razzaz's decision to carry out a cabinet reshuffle. Awards and honors In August 2014, she conducted an exclusive Al-Ghad newspaper interview with Jordan’s King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein In March 2016, she was nominated by the European Union Ambassador to Jordan Andrea Matteo Fontana, to be among the "Women Pioneering in Development List", "for her dedication to empowering media and journalism", on the occasion of International Women's Day. On September 1, 2021, a royal decree was issued approving the cabinet’s decision to appointing her as an ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigrants, and naming her an ambassador to the kingdom of Morocco. She was awarded the Order