Yousef Haikal

Yousef Haikal
Yousef Haikal
	يوسف هيكل
Mayor of Jaffa
	In office; 1945 – 1948
Jordanian Minister to the United States; of Jordan ; to United States
	In office; March 23, 1949 / June 1, 1949 – December 14, 1953
Succeeded by	Abdelmunim al-Rifai
Jordanian Ambassador to the United Kingdom; of Jordan ; to United Kingdom
	In office; August 4, 1954 – May 18, 1956
Preceded by	Sulayman al-Nabulsi
Succeeded by	Baha Toukan
Jordanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City; of Jordan ; to United Nations
	In office; August 21, 1957 – June 5, 1962
Preceded by	Abdelmunim al-Rifai
Succeeded by	Abdelmunim al-Rifai
Jordanian Ambassador to India; of Jordan ; to India
	In office; June 5, 1962 – May 10, 1964
Succeeded by	October 3, 1964 – 1968 Kemal Mehmood Homoud
Jordanian Ambassador to China; of Jordan ; to Republic of China
	In office; May 10, 1964 – March 10, 1969
Preceded by	Azmi Nashachibi
Succeeded by	Kamel Al-Sharif
Personal details
Born	1907; Jaffa
Died	1989 (aged 81–82); Amman
Education	studied primary and secondary school in Jaffa
Alma mater	Arab College (Jerusalem), University of London and BA in law and a diploma in political science, international relations, Economic Sciences, PhD in human rights and economic sciences from the University of Paris.

Yousef Haikal (1907–1989) was a Jordanian Ambassador.

Career

From 1943 to 1945 he was General Inspector of Awqaf (Moslem Public Properties in Palestineand District Judge (Palestine).
From 1945 to the Nakba in 1948 he was Mayor of Jaffa.[1]
From 1949 to 1953 he was Minister in Washington, D.C. where he from 1950 to December 1953 he represented the Jordanian government at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
From 1953 to 1954 he was head of the Jordan Delegation with the Jordan–Israel Mixed Armistice Commission in Jerusalem.[2]
From August 4, 1954 to May 18, 1956 he was ambassador in London.
From May 18, 1956 to 1957 he was ambassador in Paris.[3]
On June 22, 1957 he was appointed ambassador in Washington, D.C., where he was accredited from August 2, 1957 to November 18, 1958.
From August 21, 1957 to June 5, 1962 he was Permanent Representative next the Headquarters of the United Nations.
From June 5, 1962 to May 10, 1964 he was ambassador in New Delhi.
From May 10, 1964 to March 10, 1969 he was ambassador in Taipei.[4]

Daniel Monterescu, Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine, p.14
Special Committee established in Article VIII, shall be supervised by a Mixed Armistice Commission
The Middle East, p. 475
The Middle East, 1958, p. 438

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