HE Buthaina Shaaban

Minister of Expatriates

Syria

Day 1 Session 1

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban is Minister of Expatriates in Syria, and writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. Before assuming her current ministerial position, Dr. Shaaban was Director of the Press Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Syria.

Dr. Shaaban received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Warwick University in England in 1982. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an advisor in 1988. Since then, she has represented Syria as a spokeswomen on an international level.  Dr. Shaaban has published four books, and contributed to many others.