Saad Jumaa

Saad Jumaa
Prime Minister of Jordan
In office 2 August 1967 – 7 October 1967
Monarch	King Hussein
Preceded by	Saad Jumaa (first term)
Succeeded by	Bahjat Talhouni
Prime Minister of Jordan
In office 23 April 1967 – 1 August 1967
Monarch	King Hussein
Preceded by	Hussein ibn Nasser
Succeeded by	Saad Jumaa (second term)
Personal details
Born	Saad Mohammad Juma 1916 Tafilah, Jordan
Died	1979 London, United Kingdom
Political party	Independent
Residence	Amman
Alma mater	Damascus University
Profession	Writer, Thinker
Religion	Islam

Saad Mohammad Jumaa (Arabic: سعد جمعه‎‎; 1916 – 1979) was a Jordanian politician and a former Prime Minister of Jordan.

Biography

Saad Jumaa' was born in Tafilah, Jordan in 1916 and was of Kurdish origin. Jumaa was a writer and thinker. He completed his secondary education in Salt and then studied law at Damascus University and graduated in 1947.

Jumma died in 1979 in London, United Kingdom.

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 Iran then Syria 1959-1962
• Ambassdor to the United States of America 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 United Kingdom 1969-1970

Publications

• مجتمع الكراهية (Society of hatred), Arab Publisher House, Arabic, 1971
• الله أو الدمار (Allah or destruction), Arabic
• المؤامرة ومعركة المصير (The conspiracy and battle of fate), Arab Publisher House, Arabic, 1968.
• أبناء الأفاعي (The sons of snakes), Arabic

See also

• List of Prime Ministers of Jordan

External links

• Prime Ministry of Jordan website

Political offices
Preceded by Hussein ibn Nasser	Prime Minister of Jordan 1967	Succeeded by Bahjat Talhouni