Prince Rashid bin Hassan (born 20 May 1979) is a member of the Jordanian royal family. He is the son of

Prince Hassan bin Talal Prince Hassan bin Talal ( ar, الحسن بن طلال, born 20 March 1947) is a member of the Jordanian royal family who was previously Crown Prince from 1965 to 1999, being removed just three weeks before King Hussein's death. Family Prince H ...

and

Princess Sarvath al-Hassan Princess Sarvath al-Hassan (born Sarvath Ikramullah on 24 July 1947) is a Jordanian royal and the wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. She was born in Calcutta on 24 July 1947, to a prominent Muslim family of the Indian subcontinent. ...

Education

Amman Baccalaureate School The Amman Baccalaureate School (ABS) is a private, fee-paying school and nonprofit organization, licensed by the Jordanian Ministry of Education. It is a coeducational day school and prepares its students for the International Baccalaureate Diplo ...

Port Regis School Port Regis School is a co-educational preparatory school located in 140 acres of parkland on the Dorset-Wiltshire border in southern England, situated between the towns of Shaftesbury and Gillingham. In 2009 ''Which school?'' said of Port Regi ...

* Harrow School - GCSE * Royal Military Academy Sandhurst *

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Hons Honours degree has various meanings in the context of different degrees and education systems. Most commonly it refers to a variant of the undergraduate bachelor's degree containing a larger volume of material or a higher standard of study, or ...

in Oriental Studies

Career

Prince Rashid was a captain in the

Jordanian Armed Forces The Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) ( ar, الْقُوَّاتُ الْمُسَلَّحَةُ الأرْدُنِية, romanized: ''Al-Quwwat Al-Musallaha Al-Urduniyya''), also referred to as the Arab Army ( ar, الْجَيْشُ الْعَرَب� ...

and is currently a

brigadier Brigadier is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country. In some countries, it is a senior rank above colonel, equivalent to a brigadier general or commodore, typically commanding a brigade of several thousand soldiers. I ...

in the

Public Security Directorate Jordan Public Security Directorate, or PSD (Arabic: ) is a public security agency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which lies under the jurisdiction of the country's Ministry of Interior. Background Jordan's law enforcement is under the p ...

serving as the police special operations commander.

Marriage

Prince Rashid became officially engaged to Miss Zeina Shaban (born 1988), on 3 July 2010. They married on 22 July 2011, at the Basman Palace in Amman. A

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

champion, Princess Zeina represented Jordan at the

2003 World Table Tennis Championships The 2003 World Table Tennis Championships was held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France from May 19 to May 25, 2003. It was the 47th edition to be contested. Liebherr is the title sponsor of the Championships. Medal summary Me ...

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, the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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and the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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where she was also the national flag bearer of Jordan. The couple has two sons: Hassan (b. 2013) and Talal (b. 2016)."Prince Rashed, Princess Zeina welcome baby boy"
Petra News Agency, 2 February 2016.

Organizations

''Head of the:'' * Jordan Amateur Boxing Association from 1999 to 2007 ''Captain of the:'' * Jordanian Polo Team since 2005 ''Chairman of the:'' * Board of Trustees of the Hashemite Charitable Organization since 2002 ''Chairman of the:'' * Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) Amman since 2006-2012 ''President of the:'' * Jordan Taekwondo Federation since 2007

Awards

* The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Renaissance (1996) * The Sitara-e-Esar Award from

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(2007)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rashid bin Hassan, Prince 1979 births Living people People educated at Amman Baccalaureate School People educated at Port Regis School People educated at Harrow School Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Jordanian generals House of Hashim Jordanian princes Jordanian people of Pakistani descent Jordanian Muslims People from Amman Suhrawardy family Jordanian people of Bengali descent