Lama Hattab

Hattab and her sister run marathons and ultramarathons.[2][1][6][7] She ran in the Marathon de Sables and the Dead Sea ultramarathon.[8] Men were not nice to them at the marathons.[6] Hattab won the Dead Sea Marathon the first time she ran it.[1] Hattab encourages running in the Middle East, especially among young girls. [8] She is also a leader in Generation of Peace an organization in Amman, Jordan.[1] Hattab also ran in the Dead Sea in 1999 where she placed in 3rd.[7]

Hattab and her sister together ran in the national team of Jordan.[1] They were around 17 or 18 years old.[1] She ran distance races, including 800-meter and 1500 meter runs.[1] In her first half marathon, she ran her and her sister did not sign up.[1] They were among the first Jordanian women to run in marathons.[1] Their coach was in the desert but couldn’t make the race she was planning on running with her friends.[1] She changed the names and told the Hattab twins to run slow as part of their training.[1]

Hattab also loves mountaineering.[9] She and her sister wanted to be the first Arab women to be mountaineers in the Guinness Book of World Records.[4] They hoped to climb the tallest mountain on each continent.[5][9] In 2007, the twins went to Alaska, USA, to train to climb mountains.[2]

First, Hattab and her sister climbed the highest mountain in North Africa's Atlas Mountains.[9] In 2007, Jordan's Prince Faisal Bin Al-Hussein started a "Generations for Peace Initiative."[9] The twins climbed the mountain to get attention for the Generations for Peace Initiative.[9] They liked mountain climbing and want to climb more mountains.[9] The Jordanian Olympics Committee said their climb was good for peace.[9]

Their dream was to climb Mt. Everest.[5] Jordan's King Abdullah's "Development Fund" help pay for their climb.[6] But they could not get enough money to make the climb.[6] They needed US$750,000.[4] Companies did not think women can do sports, so did not give them money.[4]