Birth: 10/11/1933 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Nablus on 10 Nov. 1933; received his primary and secondary education in Nablus, graduating from high school in 1952; received a Diploma from the Teachers’ Training College, Amman, in 1954; worked as a school teacher in Jordan until 1958; BA from the School of Arts, Damascus University, 1959; worked as a teacher in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates from 1959-66; joined Jordan’s General Intelligence Dept. as a political analyst in 1965; became Minister of Culture and Information in Jordan from 1970-72 and in 1973-74; Board of Trustees member of the University of Jordan from 1972 (until 1985); fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1975-76); worked as (Jordanian) Minister of Information (1976-79 and 1980-84) and Minister of the Court (1984-88); member of the Jordanian Higher Council of Education from 1985 until 1991; served as political advisor to King Hussein Bin Talal of Jordan from 1988-91; appointed Chief of the Royal Court in Amman in Nov. 1991 (until March 1992); appointed permanent representative of Jordan to the UN, New York, from March 1992-July 1995, and as non-resident Ambassador of Jordan to Cuba from Feb. 1993-July 1995; senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace, Washington DC in 1995; was hosted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington in 1997; served as political advisor to King Abdullah II of Jordan in 1999, but resigned in 2000; member of several organizations, incl. the Arab Thought Forum in Amman, and the International Consultative Group on the Middle East (ICG); since July 2004 elected member of the ICG Board of Trustees; has widely published, incl. Jordanians, Palestinians and the Hashemite Kingdom (Washington DC, 1999).
