Husayn Fakhri al-Khalidi ( ar, حسين فخري الخالدي, , 1895 – 6 February 1962) was
mayor of Jerusalem
The Mayor of the City of Jerusalem is head of the executive branch of the political system in Jerusalem. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Jerusal ...
from 1934 to 1937 and the 13th Prime Minister of Jordan in 1957.
On 23 June 1935 Khalidi founded the
Reform Party and was subsequently the party's representative to the
Arab Higher Committee
The Arab Higher Committee ( ar, اللجنة العربية العليا) or the Higher National Committee was the central political organ of the Arab Palestinians in Mandatory Palestine. It was established on 25 April 1936, on the initiative o ...
.
On 1 October 1937, amid the
1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the British Mandate administration outlawed the AHC and several Arab political parties and arrested a number of Arab political leaders. The Reform Party was dissolved and Khalidi was one of the leaders arrested.
[''A Survey of Palestine - prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry.'' Reprinted 1991 by the Institute of Palestine Studies, Washington. Volume II. . p.949] He was removed as mayor of Jerusalem and deported to the
Seychelles
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, together with four other Arab nationalist political leaders.
He was released in December 1938
to enable him to take part in the
London Conference in February 1939, and was among those rejecting the British Government's
White Paper of 1939
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.
Khalidi returned to
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
in 1943 and joined the reformed Arab Higher Committee in 1945, becoming its secretary in 1946. He was a member of the short-lived
All-Palestine Government
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established under Egypt's patronage in Gaza in September 1948. He published a book of his memoirs in the same year, while exiled in Beirut.
Episode 4 He prospered under
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
ian rule, he was custodian and supervisor of the Haram al-Sharif in 1951, became a cabinet minister (for Foreign Affairs) and briefly
prime minister
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in 1957. In 1958, he wrote a book in English entitled ''Arab Exodus'', though it has never been published.
Khalidi died on 6 February 1962. He was the brother of
Ismail Khalidi and the uncle of
Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Ismail Khalidi (; born 1948) is an American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the ''Journal of Palestine Studies'' from 2002 until 2020, when ...
and Raja Khalidi.
[ISMAIL KHALIDI, 52, U.N. OFFICIAL, DIES, New York Times, September 6, 1968]
See also
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List of prime ministers of Jordan
This is a list of Prime Minister of Jordan, prime ministers of Jordan since 1921.
List of officeholders
See also
*List of kings of Jordan
References
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External links
Prime Ministry of Jordan website
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