Birth: NULL/NULL/1931 Death:NULL/NULL/2001
Born in Brooklyn, US, on 13 Oct. 1931; son of Abdul Hamid Shoman; returned with his father to Jerusalem in 1933 and was educated at the St. George’s School in Jerusalem; emigrated with his family following the 1948 Nakba; pursued his education at the Victoria College in Alexandria, Egypt, and later at Cambridge University, UK, from where he received a BA in Economics in 1955; was trained at the Midland Bank in London and appointed Assistant Deputy General Manager of the Arab Bank in Jordan in 1956; served as member of the Bank’s Board of Directors since 1957; continued his studies and received an MA in Economics from Cambridge in 1959; following his father’s death in 1974, was elected Deputy Chairman and Deputy General Manager of the Arab Bank; became Deputy Chairman of the Abdul Hamid Shoman Foundation (founded in 1978 to promote of knowledge, research and development); established with his wife Darat Al-Funoun (House of Arts) in Amman in 1993 to help raise awareness in the fields of the Arts, Architecture and Archaeology; withdrew from the Arab Bank on 19 May 2001 for health reasons; he also had many hobbies and won the first prize for catching the biggest white marlin of the season in Puerto Rico, 1961; died on 30 June 2001 in a Vienna hospital; was buried in Petra, Jordan; in his memory, the Khalid-Shoman Foundation was established after his death.
