Thuraya obaid biography of martin
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Thoraya Obaid
Saudia Aarabian UN official (born 1945)
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid (Arabic: ثريا عبيد, romanized: Thurayyā ʻUbayd; born 2 March 1945) is a Saudi politician and diplomat who served as executive director of the United Nations Population Fund from 2000 to 2010.[1][2][3] From 2013 to 2016 she was a member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia.[4]
Early life and education
Obaid was born on 2 March 1945 in Baghdad, Iraq.[1] Her father Ahmed Obaid was a Saudi journalist and scholar of classical Arabic, and she has said that he was "something of a dissident for his era".[4] She began her education at the age of three at an Islamic school in Mecca, then from the age of six in 1951 attended the American College for Girls in Cairo, Egypt.
She was the first woman to receive a Saudi state scholarship for study in the United States and gained a BA in English literature from Mills College (1966) and an M