Lina Khalifeh

Lina Khalifeh (born 1984) is a Jordanian black belt taekwondo champion, after winning medals for the Jordanian team, she decided to extend her career past the martial arts. In 2010, after she found out that one of her friends was attacked and beaten up by her father and brother, she decided to start giving mixed martial arts self-defence classes from her parents' basement, building up on that, she opened her own self-defence center named “She Fighter” in 2012 to teach women in Amman, Jordan, to defend themselves since sexual harassment and acts of aggression were common in Jordan.

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