Abdullah Rimawi
| Abdullah Rimawi | |
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Portrait of Rimawi
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| Minister of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 29 October 1956 – 13 April 1957 |
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| Regional Secretary of the Regional Command of the Jordanese Regional Branch | |
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In office 1952 – 1 September 1959 |
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| Preceded by | None – post established |
| Succeeded by | Munif al-Razzaz |
| Member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | |
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In office June 1954 – 1 September 1959 |
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| Member of the Regional Command of the Jordanese Regional Branch | |
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In office 1952 – 1 September 1959 |
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| Born | 1920 Beit Rima, British Mandate of Palestine |
| Died | 5 March 1980 (aged 59–60) |
| Nationality | Palestinian-Jordanian |
Abdullah Rimawi (Arabic: عبد الله الريماوي; also spelled Abdullah ar-Rimawi, 1920 – 5 March 1980) was the head of the Ba'ath Party in Jordan in the 1950s. He served as Foreign Affairs Minister in Suleiman Nabulsi's government in 1957. A staunch pan-Arabist, Rimawi became one of the most vocal opponents of the Hashemite ruling family in Jordan and favored union with Syria. He fled Jordan in 1957 as the result of a crisis between the leftist government he was a part of and the royal family. He based himself in the United Arab Republic (UAR; result of union between Egypt and Syria in 1958) where he drew closer to UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser provoking his expulsion from the Ba'ath Party—which was at odds with Nasser—in 1959. Soon after he founded a splinter party called the Arab Socialist Revolutionary Ba'ath Party. During his exile, he allegedly made a number of attempts to attack or undermine the Jordanian monarchy.
Rimawi was born in 1920 in the town of Beit Rima, near Ramallah, during the period of British Mandatory rule in Palestine. He attended primary school in his hometown and secondary school at the Arab College in Jerusalem, graduating in 1937. He then enrolled at the American University of Beirut where he studied Western political theory and the rise of nationalism in the Asian continent. He graduated with a BA in mathematics and natural science in 1940. Afterward, Rimawi returned to Palestine and got a job as a professor in the Nablus school authority. He would later work in various high schools in Jaffa, Tulkarm, and Ramla until 1945.
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