Hafiz Wahba

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Hafiz Wahba ( Arabic حافظ وهبة, DMG Ḥāfiẓ Wahba ; * 1889 in Egypt ; † 1969 ) was a Saudi Arabian diplomat .

Life

Sheikh Hafiz Wahab studied law at al-Azhar University , the Muslim Jurisprudence College in Cairo and worked as a journalist when he went into exile from Cairo to British India in 1914 , from where he was expelled to the Persian Gulf . There he worked in the pearl trade until 1920. From 1924 to 1927 he was of Ibn Saud as governor of Mecca used. From 1927 to 1929 he was Minister of Education, vizier of Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, Minister and Deputy Viceroy of the Hejaz and Najd . In 1936, he accompanied Alice, Countess of Athlone on a trip through Saudi Arabia . In 1938 he traveled to Tokyo and established diplomatic relations with Japan for Saudi Arabia . In 1945 he was a participant in the San Francisco Conference ,

From 1930 until the break of diplomatic relations in 1956 he was ambassador to London . The Saudis have been making territorial claims for buraimi since around 1949 . In 1955, Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz , keeper of the Hejaz, was a well-known consumer of Cointreau . On November 6, 1956, after the Suez Crisis , Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz broke off relations with the United Kingdom. In November 1958, the Saudis claimed Chaur al-Udaid . In 1958, after the formation of the United Arab Republic , Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz invested two million pounds sterling to finance a conspiracy against Gamal Abdel Nasser . In December 1959, Foreign Minister Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz declared that not all territorial conflicts need to be resolved in detail before diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom can be resumed.

In 1959, Hafiz Wahba ran the Arabian American Oil Company .

In 1962 he negotiated the resumption of diplomatic relations with the government in London and was then again Ambassador to the Court of St James’s until July 13, 1966 . Hafiz Wahba's son was Mustafa Wahba.

Hafiz Wahba was the author of The Arabian Peninsula , for Lady Evelyn Cobbold, a daughter of the 7th Earl of Dunmore , he wrote a foreword to her book Pilgrimage to Mecca .

predecessor	Office	successor
	Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1930–1956
	Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1962–13. July 1966	Abdul Rahman al-Helaissi

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Yitzhak Oron, Ed., Middle East Record Volume 1, 1960 p. 308; Clive Jones, Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965: Ministers, Mercenaries and Mandaris , p. 61
3. ↑ Life (magazine) , September 1, 1948 [1] , [2] Joel Augustus Rogers, World's Great Men of Color , Volume 2, page 541, [3] (PDF; 2.7 MB) An Arabian Diary , p. 324, Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Kai Bird, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate : coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956, p. 111