Hazem Nuseibeh
| Hazem Nuseibeh | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office January 1962 – April 1963, 1965 |
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| Monarch | Hussein of Jordan |
| Prime Minister | Wasfi al-Tal |
| Minister of the Hashemite Royal Court | |
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In office 1963 – ? |
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| Monarch | Hussein of Jordan |
| Minister of Reconstruction and Development | |
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In office 1967–1968 |
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| Monarch | Hussein of Jordan |
| Prime Minister | Bahjat Talhouni |
| Ambassador to Egypt | |
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In office 1968–1971 |
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| Ambassador to Turkey | |
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In office 1971–1972 |
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| Ambassador to Italy, Switzerland & Austria | |
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In office 1972–1974 |
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| Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations | |
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In office 1976–1985 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 May 1922 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Citizenship | Jordan |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Qadar Masri Nuseibeh |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | American University of Beirut, Princeton University |
Hazem Zaki Nuseibeh also spelled Nusseibeh and Nusaybah (born 6 May 1922) is a Jordanian politician and diplomat of Palestinian descent. He is a member of the old Nuseibeh family. During his career for the Jordanian administration he served amongst others as Minister of Foreign Relations, Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He is also seen as one of the most important ideologists of Arab nationalism.
Nuseibeh was born in 1922 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. For his secondary education he went to Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt between 1936 and 1940. He started his university studies at the American University of Beirut, completing a BA in Political Science in 1943. Afterwards he returned to Jerusalem to study law between 1943 and 1948. During this time Nuseibeh became a broadcaster and chief news editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service, where he reported about the Deir Yassin massacre. Nuseibeh was told by the Palestinian Arab leader Husayn al-Khalidi to fabricate stories about atrocities such as rape and a higher death count. In a BBC documentary, made fifty years after the start of the conflict, Nuseibeh said that fabricating the stories was one of their biggest mistakes, as it led to Palestinians fleeing the country. His studies carried him abroad once more when he went to study at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in New Jersey, United States. There he earned a Master of Public Affairs in 1952. At the Politics Department of Princeton he earned a further MA in 1953 and his PhD in 1954.
In 1958 Nuseibeh was to be appointed under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Federation, a union of Jordan and Iraq. However, the 14 July Revolution brought down the ruling family in Iraq several days before Nuseibeh's appointment, and the union disbanded. At one point in time thereafter Nuseibeh served as the Jordanian representative in the Jordan–Israel Mixed Armistice Commission. During the 1950s and 1960s the Nuseibeh family became more influential in the Jordanian Government, as Hazem's brother Anwar Nusseibeh was appointed as governor and custodian of the sanctuaries in the West Bank, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and at times was Minister of Defence. Hazem Nuseibeh himself later served as Foreign Affairs Minister between January 1962 and April 1963 and once more in 1965, although other sources mention that he served continuously between 1962 and 1966. In February 1965 Jordanian Prime Minister, Wasfi al-Tal, presented a White Paper designed to improve the relationship between Jordanians and Palestinians, which had been troublesome for the last couple of years under King Hussein of Jordan. The White Paper was mainly drafted by Nuseibeh and it called for the establishment of a United Kingdom of Palestine and Jordan. The plan gave the West Bank limited autonomy from the state of Jordan and allowed for the election of Palestinians. With the plan Nusseibeh hoped to make the Palestinians in the state of Jordan feel more included. Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal voted against the plan as he feared it would creation more friction between the Palestinians and Jordanians. The plan also received criticism from Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, who wished to take the Palestinians under his pan-Arab umbrella. Later, Nuseibeh came to regret that his White Plan was not implemented, as he felt that the Palestine Liberation Organization could gain prominence because it could call itself the only representative of the Palestinian people. In 1963 Nuseibeh also became Minister of the Hashemite Royal Court and Political Adviser to Hussein of Jordan. This was followed by a term as Minister of Reconstruction and Development between 1967 and 1968.
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