Ja'afar Touqan
Ja'afar Tuqan ( ar, جعفر طوقان) (also spelled ''Jafar Tukan''; (19 January 1938 – 25 November 2014) was a Palestinians, Palestinian-Jordanian architecture, architect. Early life Ja'afar Tuqan was born in 1938 in Jerusalem, Israel (region), Israel. He was the son of the Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan, writer of the poem ''Mawtini'', the current national anthem of Iraq. He was also the nephew of both the Jordanian Prime Minister Ahmad Toukan and the Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan and thus a member of the Tuqan family. Tuqan graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1960. He worked upon graduating from AUB at the Jordanian Ministry of Public Works as a design architect, and then joined the firm Dar al-Handasah Consulting Engineers at their head offices in Beirut. In 1968, he established a private practice in Beirut, and in 1973, formed the partnership Rais and Tukan Architects, which later became Jafar Tukan and Partners Architects and Engineers, and was reloc ...
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