Alia Abu Tayeh Jordanian politician

Alia Muhammad Odeh Abu Tayeh (21 March 1953 – 27 July 2019) was a Jordanian academic and politician. She has experience in education and administration. One of the first educated Bedouin women in Jordan, and the first Bedouin parliamentarian, as she was appointed to the Jordanian Senate (first chamber of Parliament) in 2001.

She belongs to the Arab Al-Huwaitat tribe. She was born in the city of Ma’an (southern Jordan), her father is the tribal leader Al-Ain Sheikh “Mohammed Odeh Abu Tayeh”, and her mother is “Bushra Zaal Abu Tayeh”, and she is the granddaughter of Sheikh Odeh Abu Tayeh, one of the most prominent leaders of the Great Arab Revolt and supporters of Sharif Hussein bin Ali.

her career

She completed her secondary education in Ma’an, and obtained her BA 1974 in Arabic from the University of Jordan, then a diploma in Education and Psychology from the University of Jordan in 1976. In 1995, she obtained a doctorate in Arabic sociolinguistics from Bucharest University.

I rose in the public position from a classroom teacher to a researcher at the Royal Academy of Management Research Islamic Civilization / Al al-Bayt Foundation, to a cultural advisor in the Jordanian foreign embassies to the head of the advisors unit / the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Academically, Dean of Al-Jouf College/ Saudi Arabia, University Professor at the University of Jordan and Al-Balqa Applied University, and Visiting Professor/ Indiana University, USA, University Professor/ University of Jordan, Aqaba Branch.

She is active in the field of education (education is a right for all) and social development, and she is the founder and president of the Al-Bushra Association – Southern Badia, concerned with the rehabilitation and employment of women in the Southern Badia.

In the political field, she was appointed to the nineteenth and twenty-fourth Jordanian Senate from 2001-2011. She is a founding member of the Jordanian Islah Party and a member of its central office. She believes that education is the solution to all the problems of the Arab world and that administrative corruption is one of Jordan’s biggest problems.