Abdelsalam al-Majali

Abdelsalam al-Majali on the signing of the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty (October 26, 1994)

Abdelsalam al-Majali (alternative name: ʿAbd al-Salam ʿAta Allah al-Majali ; Arabic عبد السلام عطا الله المجالي, DMG ʿAbd as-Salām ʿAṭā llāh al-Maǧālī ; * February 18, 1926 in Kerak , Transjordan ) is a former Jordanian politician who was Prime Minister of Jordan between 1993 and 1995 and again from 1997 to 1998 .

Life

Doctor, Minister and University President

Majali completed a study of medicine at the University of Damascus , where he graduated 1949th This was followed by postgraduate studies in laryngology and otology at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in London , which he completed in 1953. After returning to Jordan, he initially worked as a military doctor for ear, nose and throat medicine and became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in 1960 . He then served as the head of the Medical Service of the Armed Forces of Jordan between 1960 and 1969 .

In 1969, Majali became Minister of Health in the fourth cabinet of Prime Minister Bahdschat at-Talhuni and also exercised this ministerial office in the second cabinet of Abdul-Munim al-Rifai , in the governments of Muhammad Daoud and Ahmad Toukan and most recently until 1971 in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Wasfi al- Valley off. At the same time he also acted as Minister of State for the Prime Minister between 1970 and 1971. After leaving the government, he was President of the University of Jordan between 1971 and 1976 and at the same time took over a professorship for medicine there in 1973. In 1974 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine from Hacettepe University in Ankara . From 1976 to 1979 he acted as Minister of Education and again as Minister of State for the Prime Minister in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Mudar Badran . Subsequently, between 1980 and 1989 he was again President of the University of Jordan and then advisor to King Hussein I and as such in 1991 head of the Jordanian delegation to the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.

Prime Minister of Jordan

As successor to Zaid ibn Shaker , Majali himself became Prime Minister of Jordan for the first time on May 29, 1993 and held this office until he was replaced by Zaid ibn Shaker on January 7, 1995. At the same time he took over the office of foreign minister in his government. During his tenure, the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty was signed on October 26, 1994 .

On March 19, 1997, Majali was appointed prime minister for the second time as the successor to Abdelkarim al-Kabariti and remained in this position until he was replaced by Fayez al-Tarawneh on August 20, 1998. During his term of office he was particularly responsible for the implementation of Elected to the Assembly of Representatives (Maǧlis an-Nuwwāb) and entrusted with economic reforms. However, his term of office was marked by foreign and domestic political crises. The 1997 elections were carried by the Islamic Action Front (Ğabhat al-'Amal al-Islāmī) majorisierte opposition boycotted that called the Assembly of Delegates as a sham parliament. Due to the introduction of a restrictive press law that he had initiated , which restricted the media that had been largely open until then, a US human rights group called him one of the world's ten main enemies of the press.

Then Majali, who is involved in the InterAction Council , became a member of the Senate (Maǧlis al-Aʿyān) , the upper house of the Jordanian Parliament ( Majlis al-Umma ) appointed by the king . In 2013 he became chairman of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences, founded in 1986 by the Organization for Islamic Cooperation . In 2014 the University of Jordan also awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Web link

• Entry in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://alrai.com/article/10492458
2. ↑ Jordan: Prime Ministers (rulers.org)
3. ↑ Prime Ministers of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In: kinghussein.gov.jo. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Jordan: Foreign Ministers (rulers.org)
5. ↑ Jordan: Prime Ministers (rulers.org)