Kassim al-Rimawi
Kassim (Qassim) Muhammad al-Rimawi ( Arabic قاسم الريماوي; * 1918 in Beit Rima, Bani Zeid , Palestine ; † April 29, 1982 in Amman , Jordan ) was a Jordanian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Jordan in 1980 .
Life
After completing his school education at Rashidiya College in Jerusalem, Al-Rimawi worked between 1943 and 1944 for the administration of the League of Nations mandate for Palestine and subsequently as a journalist. In 1947 he joined the paramilitary army of the Holy War (Ǧaiš al-Ǧihād al-Muqaddas) led by Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini and Hasan Salama and took part in the Palestine War. After the death of Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini on April 8, 1948, he became General Secretary of the Army of the Holy War. He then became General Secretary of the Regional Administration of Palestine in Transjordan in 1949 . He completed a degree in sociology at the American University in Cairo (AUC), which he graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Sociology). He then worked between 1952 and 1957 as an observer for Palestine at the United Nations in New York City and as a lecturer in administrative and social sciences at Columbia University . He completed a postgraduate degree in sociology at the same time there in 1954 with a Master of Arts (MA Sociology) before he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) in economics at Columbia University in 1956 . After returning to Jordan in 1957, he first became Director General of the Phosphate Mining Company and then in 1961 an expert in statistics in the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Thereupon al-Rimawi was elected for the first time as a member of the Assembly of Representatives (Maǧlis an-Nuwwāb) . On January 28, 1962, he took over the post of Minister of Agriculture in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal and held this office until March 27, 1963. At the same time he became Minister for Development and Reconstruction and held this office until October 13, 1962. From July 31, 1965 to March 4, 1967, he served as Minister of the Interior and Minister of Urban and Village Affairs in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal. Subsequently, in 1967, he was speaker of the Assembly of Representatives for some time.
In the second government of Prime Minister Abdul-Munim al-Rifai between June 27 and September 16, 1970, he again held the position of Minister of the Interior, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Urban and Village Affairs. He again held the office of Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Prime Minister Abdelhamid Sharaf from December 19, 1979 to July 3, 1980.
Afterwards al-Rimawi replaced Abdelhamid Sharaf on July 3, 1980 and took over the office of Prime Minister himself. However, he was replaced seven weeks later on August 28, 1980 by Mudar Badran , who then formed his second cabinet. During his tenure, he was also Minister of Defense between July and August 1980. Al-Rimawi, who also held a professorship at the University of Jordan , was temporarily chairman of the Royal Commission for Jerusalem Affairs and also a member of the Senate (Maǧlis al-Aʿyān) , the upper house of the Jordanian parliament ( Majlis al-Umma ) .
Web link
- Entry in rulers.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jordan: Prime Ministers (rulers.org)
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| SURNAME | Rimawi, Kassim al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rimawi, Kassim Muhammad al- (full name); قاسم الريماوي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jordanian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beit Rima, Bani Zeid , Palestine |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1982 |
| Place of death | Amman , Jordan |