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


Family

Prince Hassan is the third son of King Talal and Queen Zein, brother of King Hussein and uncle of King Abdullah II. In 1968, Prince El Hassan married Sarvath Ikramullah, daughter of Pakistani politician and diplomat
Mohammed Ikramullah Mohammad Ikramullah KCMG (hon), CIE (15 January 1903 – 12 September 1963) was a figure in the administration of Pakistan at the time of independence of Pakistan on 14 August 1947. As a member of the provisional government of Pakistan, be ...
, and female Pakistani-Bengali politician, diplomat and Urdu author, Begum
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (22 July 1915 – 11 December 2000) was a Pakistani Bengali, Bengali Pakistani politician from Bengal, diplomat and author. She was the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London. She wa ...
. They first met in London in 1958, when they were both youngsters, and have four children together: * Princess Rahma (born 13 August 1969) * Princess Sumaya (born 14 May 1971) * Princess Badiya (born 28 March 1974) * Prince Rashid (born 20 May 1979)


Education

Prince Hassan was educated first in Amman. He then attended Sandroyd School in Wiltshire before going on to Summer Fields School, Oxford, followed by
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in England, then Christ Church, a college of the
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, where he graduated BA with Honours in
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and later proceeded to MA. Hassan is fluent in
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, English, French and German. He has a working knowledge of
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and Spanish, and studied
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at university.


Career

In 1965 Hassan was named as Crown Prince of Jordan after the constitution was amended. He was frequently
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during his brother's absences from the country. During Hussein's final illness in January 1999, he was replaced by his nephew Abdullah three weeks before the king died. Abdullah subsequently inherited the throne of Jordan. In 2009, he joined the project "Soldiers of Peace", a film against all wars and for global peace. On 10 June 2013, he was appointed as the chairman of the advisory board on water and sanitation (UNSGAB) by the
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.


Removal as Crown Prince

As King Hussein was undergoing cancer treatment in mid-1998, the King assigned Crown Prince Hassan a range of powers and authority to act as regent. With his newly gained powers, Hassan exercised a number of steps to consolidate his position as heir and future king, which included: (1) "orchestrating the removal of the npopulargovernment" of Abdelsalam Majali and appointing former Royal Court chief
Fayez al-Tarawneh Fayez Tarawneh ( ar, فايز الطراونة; '; 1 May 1949 – 15 December 2021) was a Jordanian independent politician, who served twice as the 31st Prime Minister of Jordan, and also as Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court. Early life and e ...
in his place, (2) organizing dialogue and reconciliation with opposition groups, most prominently the Muslim Brotherhood, and (3) attempting to effect changes at the top of the military. Hassan's attempted changes to the top hierarchy of the military angered King Hussein and led him to resume full duties as king. It is also a commonly cited reason for Hassan's removal as crown prince on 24 January 1999. Hassan's removal took shape through a 14-page typed letter, described by American historian W. Andrew Terrill as "extremely harsh", in which King Hussein expressed "unmistakable disappointment in Crown Prince Hassan" and ordered his replacement with Hussein's son Abdullah. Terrill describes King Hussein as perhaps having felt that Hassan had "interest in shifting the line of succession to his own family", which led to his dismissal as Crown Prince three weeks before Hussein's death. Crown Prince Hassan's attempted consolidation of power led the sickly King Hussein to break off "intensive" treatments for lymphoma and fly back home to Jordan in order to address the issue. At first, the King attempted to negotiate with Hassan, placing the King's younger son
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as Hassan's crown prince to ensure that the line of succession would not switch to Hassan's line. However, Hassan's Pakistani wife Sarvath vetoed the proposal, particularly because of her reported distaste for Hamzah's American-born mother
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and her desire to have her son Prince Rashid in the line of succession. King Hussein instead replaced Hassan with his own son Abdullah, who had backing within the military and whose position as eldest son of the king would allow him to be enthroned by royal fiat, unlike Hamzah whose enthronement would require confirmation from the Jordanian Parliament.


Organizations

Prince Hassan has been a very active participant in Jordanian and International civil society. He founded the Royal Scientific Society in 1970, the Annual Bilad Al-Sham Conference in 1978, and the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in 1980. He has also established the
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in Mafraq, the Hashemite Aid and Relief Agency, the Islamic Scientific Academy, the Triannual Conferences on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, the Amman Baccalaureate School, and the Al-Hassan Youth Award. He founded and chairs the Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues,
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, the Higher Council for Science and Technology, the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, the Foundation for Intercultural and Interfaith Research and Dialogue, the
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since 1981, the Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center, and the West Asia – North Africa Forum (WANA Forum), and was chair of the Policy Advisory Commission for the
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from 1999–2002. He has served as the president of the
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from 1999 to 2007, the board of directors for the Center for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at the
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, the
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, the
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, and the International Tolerance Foundation for Humanities and Social Studies, and is honorary president of the Euro-Mediterranean Association for Cooperation and Development since 2012. Prince Hassan is also a patron of the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit at the
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, the Swiss Rights and Humanity non-profit organization, the
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, and the Woolf Institute, in addition to being a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, the Chairman the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, the Advisory Board of British
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(since 2002), the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD) at
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, Switzerland, the Executive Committee of the
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, the International Advisory Board of
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, the Committee of Personalities of Institut Catala De La Mediterrania, the Informal Advisory Group to the
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, the
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, the International Board of the
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, the Board of World Religious Leaders for
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, the Advisory Council for Research of the Center for Democracy and Community Development (since 2010), and the Independent Eminent Experts group of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance.


Honours


National

*: * Honorary Knight Grand Cordon with Collar of the
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* Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance * Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan * Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence * Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan * Grand Cordon of the Decoration of the Star of the Hashemites * Order of the State Centennial


Foreign

* : Grand Cross of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, 1st Class * : Collar of the Order of Khalifa * Ethiopian Imperial Family: Grand Cordon of the
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* : Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary * : Grand Cross of the
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* : Grand Cordon of the Order of the Precious Crown * : Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Defender of the Realm * : Grand Cordon of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite. * : First Class of the
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* : Knight Grand Cross of the
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* : Recipient of the King Willem-Alexander Inauguration Medal * : Grand Cross of the
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* : Grand Cross of the
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* : Grand Cordon of the
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* : Grand Cross of the
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* : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III * : Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Polar Star * : Recipient of the 70th Birthday Medal of King Carl XVI Gustaf * :
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with Special Grand Cordon (1973) * : Knight Grand Cross of the
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* : Grand Cordon of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia


Honorary degrees and doctorates

In 2002, Prince Hassan was awarded an
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by the
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, in recognition of his contribution to the field of
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reconstruction and development. In 2004 he was awarded an honorary fellowship by York St John University, for his lifelong contribution to peace initiatives in the Middle East, humanitarian projects and inspirational leadership in interfaith dialogue. * Honorary Degree of Science,
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, Turkey (1981) * Honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law,
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, U.K. (1990) * Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters,
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, U.S.A. (1995) * Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters,
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, Northern Ireland (1996) * Honorary Doctorate, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia (1997) * Honorary Doctorate of Laws,
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, U.K. (1999) * Honorary Doctorate,
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, Turkey (1999) * Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (Hon LLB), University of Hertfordshire, U.K. (2000) * Honorary Doctorate of Theology,
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, Germany (2001) * Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters,
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, U.S.A. (2002) * Honorary Doctorate,
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, U.K. (2002) * Honorary Doctorate of Laws,
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, U.K. (2002) * Honorary Doctorate of Laws, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan (2005) * Honorary Degree of LLD Honoris Causa,
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(SOAS) at the
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, U.K. (2005) * Honorary Degree and the Medal of the World Academy, Old Dominion University, U.S.A. (2005) * Doctorate Honoris Causa,
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(UCAM), Brazil (2006) * Doctorate Honoris Causa,
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(IESB), Brazil (2006) * Doctorate Honoris Causa, Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU), Brazil (2006) * Honorary Degree in Human Letters,
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, U.S.A. (2006) * Honorary Degree, Soka University, Japan (2006) * Honorary Doctorate, the Faculty of Humanities, University of Lund, Sweden (2007). * Doctorate Honoris Causa
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, Hungary (2007). * Honorary Fellowship of the
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(2008) * Doctorate Honoris Causa in Multicultural Communication For Human And Nations Development,
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,
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, 2012


Awards and prizes

* The Four Freedoms Award – May 2014 * The Abu Bakr Al-Siddique Medal of the
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– September 1996. * The 1995 Science and Society Prize in Madrid. * The inaugural Gandhi/King/Ikeda Community Builders Medal and Torch of Nonviolence – April 2001. * The Distinguished Foreign Visitor Award at the
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in Boston – April 2002. * The 2003
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for the Advancement of Inter-religious Understanding – June 2003. * The Abraham Fund Pioneer of Co-existence Award (New York) – January 2004. * The 2005 Eternal Flame Award by the Annual Scholars’ Conference of the U.S. * The
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– 2007. * A medal to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the adoption of UNESCO's Constitution, at the inaugural meeting of the Tolerance Foundation held at the Yusupov Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia – May 2007. * The 2008 Abraham Geiger Award for Peace. * The Niwano Peace Prize in Japan – May 2008. * The Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani medallion – Iqbal Academy, UK – 2008. * The Peace Prize of the City of Augsburg – Germany – 2008.


Abraham Geiger Award

The 2008 Abraham Geiger Award, named after liberal thinker of
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(1810–1874), was conferred upon Prince Hassan bin Talal. The award ceremony was held in
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on 4 March 2008. Past recipients include Cardinal
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, Alfred Grosser,
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and Susannah Heschel. "Honouring the President Emeritus of the World Conference of Religions for Peace underlines Prince Hassan's courage in defending
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, promoting understanding among different cultures and enhancing dialogue between
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,
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and Christians. The Prince's efforts to promote understanding between the Islamic and Western Worlds are crucial at a time when we seem to be drifting apart, with perceived differences appearing to overwhelm the many things we have in common, both culturally and religiously."


Publications

* (it) ''Camminare insieme'' (with Alain Elkann et Elio Toaff), Milan, Bompiani, 2015. * ''Peacemaking : An Inside Story of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli Treaty'', Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. * ''To Be A Muslim: Islam, Peace, and Democracy'',
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coauthor,
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, Handcover, December 2003, (96 pages), . * ''Continuity, Innovation and Changes : Selected essays'', Amman, Majlis El Hassan, 2001. * (it) ''Essere musulmano'' (with Alain Elkann), Milan, Bompiani, 2001. * ''Christianity in the Arab World'',
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with foreword by the Prince of Wales, 1995, (120 pages), . * ''Search for Peace : The Politics of the Middle Ground in the Arab East'', New-York, St. Martin’s Press, 1984. * ''Palestinian Self-Determination: A Study of the West Bank and Gaza Strip'', Quartet Books, New York 1981, . * ''A Study on Jerusalem'', London – New-York, Longman, 1979.


References


External links


Picture of Prince Hassan
(taken from the BBC)

* ttp://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1777526643 Interview with Prince Hassanon
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's '' As It Happens'' (2 February 2011)
Abraham Geiger College – Abraham Geiger Award 2008 goes to HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
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