14 Facts About Nadia El-Nakla

Nadia El-Nakla was elected as a councillor on Dundee City Council since 2022, representing the West End of Dundee.

Nadia El-Nakla is a member of the Scottish National Party.

Nadia El-Nakla is married to Humza Yousaf, the former first minister of Scotland and former leader of the SNP.

Nadia El-Nakla gained an MSc in Counselling from Abertay University.

Nadia El-Nakla is a qualified psychotherapist counsellor covering addiction, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, eating disorders, bereavement and suicidal ideation.

Nadia El-Nakla is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Nadia El-Nakla worked as a case worker for Shona Robison, the member of the Scottish Parliament for the Dundee City East constituency.

Nadia El-Nakla was successful in her election bid and currently sits as a councillor, serving as the equalities spokesperson.

Nadia El-Nakla was previously married to Fariad Umar, an IT expert, and they had one daughter together.

In 2019, Nadia El-Nakla married Humza Yousaf, the future first minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP.

Nadia El-Nakla later gave birth to her second daughter, first of Yousaf's, and the family lived in Broughty Ferry, a suburb a few miles east of the city of Dundee.

Nadia El-Nakla has disclosed that she has had four miscarriages.

In 2021, Nadia El-Nakla told the Daily Record that she had made a complaint of discrimination against a Dundee children's nursery that did not offer a place to her daughter.

In October 2023, her parents, Maged and Elizabeth Nadia El-Nakla, became trapped in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war; after travelling to the Middle East to visit a sick relative from her father's side, where his Palestinian family relatives still reside.