Anastas Hanania (1903 – 1995) was a Palestinian-Jordanian lawyer, judge, official and diplomat. Hanania was educated at the

Syrian Protestant College The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a Private University, private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York (state), New York with its campus in Beirut, Leban ...

in Beirut (now the AUB) and the Law College in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He entered the world of Palestinian politics in the late 1930s and 1940s.

Career

After the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, Hanania and his family left Palestine for

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

. During the 1950s, Hanania was one of the original signatories to the Constitution of Jordan of 1952, which remains the law of the land today. Between 1960 and 1966, Hanania was Jordan's Ambassador to the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

and between 1968 and 1989, he was a Senator in Jordan's Upper House of Parliament.

Ministerial positions

Hanania held several cabinet positions in the Jordanian government including Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice and Foreign Minister

Personal life

Hanania's wife Claire Nashawati died in 2002. They had a son (heart surgeon Daoud Hanania) and four daughters (May, Lyne, Louly and Myr).

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