Given the question: Facts:   - profession: linguist , writer    - president: bashar assad hafez assad    - order: vice president of syria minister of culture    - successor: maha qanout    - party: syrian regional branch of the arab socialist ba'ath party    - predecessor: zuhair masharqa '' office established ''    - relations: issam al-attar -lrb- brother -rrb-    - otherparty: national progressive front      - term end: 19 january 2000    - term start: 23 march 2006 1 december 1976    - birth date: 10 january 1933    - name: najah al-attar نجاح العطار    - nationality: syrian    - birth place: damascus , syria    - religion: islam   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of najah al-attar .
The answer is:
najah al-attar -lrb- ; born 10 january 1933 -rrb- is the vice president of syria .she is the only woman to have held the post and has served since 2006 .previously she was minister of culture from 1976 to 2000 .