Ahmad Toukan
Ahmad Toukan ( Arabic أحمد طوقان, DMG Aḥmad Ṭūqān , also Ahmed Touqan ; * August 15, 1903 in Nablus ; † January 1981 in Amman , Jordan ) was a Jordanian politician .
Life
Toukan, the oldest brother of the two well-known Arab poets Ibrahim Toukan and Fadwa Toukan , first studied engineering at the American University of Beirut after attending school and graduated in 1925 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Engineering). He completed a subsequent postgraduate study of physics at the University of Oxford in 1929 with a Master of Science (M.Sc. Physics).
After the sovereignty of Jordan from the United Kingdom on May 25, 1946, he took over numerous offices in the Jordanian government and international organizations .
In 1951 he was Foreign Minister for the first time for a short time . Between 1954 and 1961 he was a UNESCO employee and, at the same time, Deputy Head of Education at the United Nations Aid Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA). After finishing this position, he was an education expert at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) from 1962 to 1966 .
In 1967 he became Jordanian Foreign Minister for the second time for a period and in 1969 he held this office for the third time. Furthermore, he was temporarily Minister of State and Vice Prime Minister of Jordan.
Toukan became the non- party Prime Minister of Jordan on September 26, 1970 . He became the successor of Muhammad Daoud at a time marked by crises and measures against Palestinian guerrillas of the PLO . Less than a month later, on October 28, 1970, he handed over the office of Prime Minister to Wasfi at-Tall , who had already been Prime Minister twice.
In 1972 he was not only President of the Hashemite Royal Court of Justice, but also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Jordan . Toukan died in early January 1981 after a long illness, according to a spokesman for the Jordanian royal palace .
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| SURNAME | Toukan, Ahmad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Touqan, Ahmed; Tuqan; Ahmad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jordanian politician; Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jordan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nablus |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1981 |
| Place of death | Amman , Jordan |