Hussein Khalidi Explained

Husayn al-Khaldi
Office:Mayor of Jerusalem
Term Start:1934
Term End:1937
Predecessor:Raghib al-Nashashibi
Successor:Daniel Auster
Office1:Prime Minister of Jordan
Order1:13th
Monarch1:King Hussein
Term Start1:15 April 1957
Term End1:24 April 1957
Predecessor1:Suleiman al-Nabulsi
Successor1:Ibrahim Hashem
Party:Reform Party
Birth Place:Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
Birth Date:17 January 1895
Death Date:6 February 1962 (age 67)
Relations:Ismail al-Khalidi (brother)

Husayn Fakhri al-Khalidi (Arabic: حسين فخري الخالدي,, 1895 – 6 February 1962) was mayor of Jerusalem from 1934 to 1937 and the 13th Prime Minister of Jordan in 1957.

On 23 June 1935 Khalidi founded the Reform Party and was subsequently the party's representative to the Arab Higher Committee.[1]

On 1 October 1937, amid the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the British Mandate administration outlawed the AHC and several Arab political parties and arrested a number of Arab political leaders. The Reform Party was dissolved and Khalidi was one of the leaders arrested.[2] [3] He was removed as mayor of Jerusalem and deported to the Seychelles, together with four other Arab nationalist political leaders. He was released in December 1938[3] to enable him to take part in the London Conference in February 1939, and was among those rejecting the British Government's White Paper of 1939.

Khalidi returned to Mandatory Palestine in 1943 and joined the reformed Arab Higher Committee in 1945, becoming its secretary in 1946. He was a member of the short-lived All-Palestine Government established under Egypt's patronage in Gaza in September 1948. He published a book of his memoirs in the same year, while exiled in Beirut.[4] He prospered under Jordanian rule, he was custodian and supervisor of the Haram al-Sharif in 1951, became a cabinet minister (for Foreign Affairs) and briefly prime minister in 1957.[5] In 1958, he wrote a book in English entitled Arab Exodus, though it has never been published.[4]

Khalidi died on 6 February 1962.[6] He was the brother of Ismail Khalidi and the uncle of Rashid Khalidi and Raja Khalidi.[7]

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  1. Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine, 1945-1948: 1945-1948, By Haim Levenberg, Routledge, 1993, p. 7
  2. A Survey of Palestine - prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Reprinted 1991 by the Institute of Palestine Studies, Washington. Volume II. . p.949
  3. News: Arab Propaganda Invades Canada and United States. Saphire. William B.. 1945-07-06. The Canadian Jewish Chronicle. 19 April 2010.
  4. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/05/20135612348774619.html
  5. A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, Gudrun Krämer, translated by Graham Harman, Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 258
  6. A different date is given by:Hussein Fakhri Al-Khalidi, however more resources, such as the NYT article: HUSSEIN KHALIDI OF JORDAN DEAD, February 8, 1962, give the date of 6 February 1962
  7. ISMAIL KHALIDI, 52, U.N. OFFICIAL, DIES, New York Times, September 6, 1968