Honorific Prefix: | His Excellency |
Trad Mithqal Sattam Al-Fayez | |
Birth Date: | 31 September 1937 |
Alma Mater: | The University of Oklahoma |
Occupation: | Politician |
Father: | Mithqal Al Fayez |
Children: | 6 |
Relatives: | Sattam Al-Fayez (Grandfather) Akef Al-Fayez Sami Al-Fayez |
Trad Mithqal Al-Fayez (Arabic: طراد مثقال الفايز, Trad Al Fayiz; 31 December 1937) is a Jordanian politician born in Amman, Jordan. He was the minister of Agriculture, an ambassador of Jordan to multiple countries, and a member of the Jordanian senate.
Al-Fayez was born in Amman in 1937 to Sheikh Mithqal Al-Fayez and Adul Khayr.[1] He graduated from The University of Oklahoma in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science.[2] In 1967, following the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War, a wave of Palestinian refugees from the West Bank were to be resettled in Jordan, Trad, alongside his brothers Akef and Talal donated 130,000 square meters of land in the main urban center of Al-Jizah to host the refugees where the Talbieh Camp stands today.[3]