Anwar Nusseibeh

Anwar Nuseibeh
Minister of Defense
In office 24 October 1954 – 28 May 1955
Minister of Defense , Minister of Education
In office 4 May 1954 – 21 October 1954
Minister of Defense, Minister of Construction and Building
In office 7 October 1952 – 5 May 1953
Minister of Construction and Building
In office 30 September 1952 – 7 October 1952
Personal details
Born	1913 Jerusalem, Mutassarifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
Died	1986 Jerusalem
Spouse(s)	Nuzha Al-Ghussein (m. 1942)
Children	Sari Nusseibeh Zaki Nusseibeh
Relatives	Hazem Nuseibeh (brother)
Education	The Perse School
Alma mater	Queens’ College, Cambridge

Anwar Bey Nuseibeh ( Arabic: أنور نسيبة‎‎ ) Anwar Bey Nuseibeh (1913–1986) was a leading Palestinian moderate who held several major posts in the Jordanian Government before Israel took control of East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1967 war. After the Six Day War he became one of the first Palestinians involved in contacts with Israel after it captured the Eastern part of the city and later encouraged his son, Sari Nusseibeh, to make contact with the Israelis.

Nuseibeh was from an aristocratic Arab family descended from the female chieftain Nusaybah bint Ka'ab, an early convert to Islam who defended Muhammed during the Battle of Uhud in 625. The Neuseibeh family were guardians of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, whose keys had been entrusted to the Nuseibeh family by Saladin in 1192.

Nuseibeh was born in Jerusalem and was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge, becoming the first Palestinian Arab to be sent to an English public school. He then went to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied law. He was a keen sportsman who captained the Cambridge tennis team, an accomplished horseman and a talented pianist. After Cambridge he went on to Gray's Inn where he was called to the bar. During his time at Queens', he was a contemporary of Abba Eban, who would later be Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel during the Six-Day War.

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