Saad Mohammad Jumaa Alayoubi ( ar, سعد محمد جمعة الأيوبي; 1916 – 19 August 1979) was a

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ian politician, writer and poet who served as the 17th

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in 1967.

Biography

''Saad Jumaa was born in Tafilah,

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in 1916 to the prominent family of Alayoubi of

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Kurdish origin. Jumaa was a writer and thinker. He completed his secondary education in

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and then studied law at Damascus University and graduated in 1947. Jumma died on 19 August 1979 in

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Career

* Director General of Press and Publications 1948–1949 * Head of the Political Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1949–1950 * Secretary to the Prime Minister 1950–1954 * Vice-Minister of Interior * Mayor of Amman 1954–1958 * Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs 1958–1959 * Ambassador to

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then

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

1959–1962 * Ambassador to the

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1962–1965 * The Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court 1965 * Prime Minister and Defence Minister 1967 * Member of the Senates 1967–1969 * Ambassador at Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1969 * Ambassador to the

1969–1970

Honours

* : Honorary Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (1965). *: First class of the Order of Homayoun. *: Chinese First Class Meda

*:

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-1st Class / Knight Grand Cross. *: Order of the Star of Jordan.

Publications

* (Society of hatred), Arab Publisher House, Arabic, 1971 * (God or destruction), Arabic * (The conspiracy and battle of fate), Arab Publisher House, Arabic, 1968. * (The sons of snakes), Arabic

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