Adnan Abu Odeh

Adnan Abu Odeh ( Arabic عدنان أبو عودة, DMG ʿAdnān Abū ʿAuda ; Born November 10, 1933 in Nablus , Palestine ) is a Jordanian politician and diplomat .

Life

Adnan Abu Odeh came from a humble background as the son of a soap maker and an illiterate woman. He joined the Islamist - neo-fundamentalist Hizb ut-Tahrir, founded in 1953 by Taqī ad-Dīn an-Nabhānī . In 1966 he became an employee of the General Directorate for the Intelligence Service ( Da'irat al-Muchabarat al-Amma ) . Between 1970 and 1973 he acted as a major in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Wasfi at-Tall and his successor Ahmad al-Lawzi for the first time as Minister of Information and Minister of Culture. He held this office again from 1973 to 1974 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Zaid ar-Rifaʿi and was also a member of the Senate (Maǧlis al-Aʿyān), the upper house of the parliament Maǧlis al-Umma, between 1974 and 1982 . In the first cabinet of Prime Minister Mudar Badran , he again held the office of Minister of Information and, in this capacity, signed the agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on cultural cooperation on August 26, 1979 with Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher .

In the second cabinet of Prime Minister Mudar Badran, Abu Odeh held the post of information minister for the fourth time from 1980 to 1984. At the same time, he was a member of the National Advisory Council from 1982 to 1984 and subsequently Minister of the Royal Court between 1984 and 1988. After he was political advisor to King Hussein I from 1988 to 1991 and head of the royal court between 1991 and 1992, he served as permanent representative to the United Nations from 1992 to 1995 . In 1997 he became a member of the Senate again and was temporarily an advisor to Abdullah II bin al-Hussein . In 2007, a prosecutor at the State Security Court charged a book on the rights of Jordanians of Palestinian descent.

publication

• Jordanians, Palestinians, & the Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East Peace Process. United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, DC 1999, ISBN 1-878379-88-7 .

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org
• Entry in the Open Library