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Sami Al-Fayez
Sami Mithqal Al-Fayez (Arabic: سامي مثقال الفايز, ''Sami Al Fayiz''; 1932 – 18 November 2012) was a Jordanian senator and Arabian tribal figure who was the paramount sheikh the Bani Sakher. Family and early life Sami was born to Sheikh Mithqal bin Sattam and Sat'a Hatmal Al-Zaben in 1932. He was Mithqal's sixth son and the second son from Sat'aa after Ali. Sami grew up in a traditional nomadic setting and culture, rather than the city like his brothers Akef and Zayd, and therefore was very familiar with tribal affairs and culture. At only 25 years old, he was appointed a tribal judge by King Hussein. Political career Al-Fayez became a senator twice, on 23/11/1993 and on 16/5/1998. He was appointed to the office of Sheikh of Sheikhs of the Bani Sakher after his brothers death by King Hussein. His last political act was organizing and hosting on the 13th of November, 2012, one of the largest tribal conferences in Jordanian history to reaffirm and cement the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Excellency
Excellency is an honorific style (manner of address), style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy. Once entitled to the title "Excellency", the holder usually retains the right to that courtesy throughout their lifetime, although in some cases the title is attached to a particular office and is held only during tenure of that office. Generally people addressed as ''Excellency'' are heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, Roman Catholic bishops, high-ranking ecclesiastics, and others holding equivalent rank, such as heads of international organizations. Members of royal families generally have distinct addresses such as Majesty, Highness, etc.. While not a title of office itself, the honorific ''Excellency'' precedes various titles held by the holder, both in speech and in writing. In reference to such an official, it takes the form ''His'' or ''Her Excellency''; in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to the west. The Jordan River, flowing into the Dead Sea, is located along the country's western border within the Jordan Rift Valley. Jordan has a small coastline along the Red Sea in its southwest, separated by the Gulf of Aqaba from Egypt. Amman is the country's capital and List of cities in Jordan, largest city, as well as the List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, most populous city in the Levant. Inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period, three kingdoms developed in Transjordan (region), Transjordan during the Iron Age: Ammon, Moab and Edom. In the third century BC, the Arab Nabataeans established Nabataean Kingdom, their kingdom centered in Petra. The Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman period saw the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akef Al-Fayez
Akef Mithqal Al-Fayez (Arabic: عاكف مثقال الفايز, ''Akif Al Fayiz''; 15 September 1922 – 8 April 1998) was a Jordanian politician born in Amman, Jordan. He held several ministerial positions and became speaker of the Jordanian Parliament for several sessions and a member of the Jordanian Senate. Family and early life Akef was born and raised in Jordan to one of the most prominent political families the Al-Fayez, to the paramount leader of the Bani Sakher, Mithqal Al-fayez. He was the eldest son from his wife Adul Khair, daughter of Amman's 5th mayor Saeed Khair. He had 6 full brothers who also held various political seats in Jordan, from oldest to youngest are Zaid, Tayil, Talal, Trad, Mohammad, and Mansour Al-Fayez. Akef's own son Faisal Al-Fayez would later succeed him both as the paramount Sheikh of the Beni Sakher and as a political figure in Jordan and the Arab world as the Prime Minister of Jordan. Political career Akef enjoyed one of the most hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trad Al-Fayez
Trad Mithqal Al-Fayez (Arabic language, Arabic: طراد مثقال الفايز, ''Trad Al Fayiz''; 31 December 1937 – 11 September 2024) 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. Early life and personal life Al-Fayez was born in Amman in 1937 to Mithqal Al Fayez, Sheikh Mithqal Al-Fayez and Adul Khayr. He graduated from University of Oklahoma, The University of Oklahoma in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science. 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 Al-Fayez, Akef and Talal donated 130,000 square meters of land in the main urban center of Al-Jizah, Jordan, Al-Jizah to host the refugees where the Talbieh Camp stands today. Trad was the last surviving son of Mithqal, passing away on the night of the 11th of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amer Al-Fayez
Amer Talal Al-Fayez (Arabic: عامر طلال مثقال الفايز, (born 25 January 1968) is a Jordanian statesman and politician that served as the Head of Royal Protocol and is currently the president and chairman at Al-Abdali Investment & Development PSC. Early life Al-Fayez was born in Amman in 1968 to Sheikh Talal Mithqal Al-Fayez and Mrs. Abu-Nameh. He grew up in a politically active environment as his father and uncles of the sheikhly Al-Fayez family held various positions at the top levels of the Jordanian government, following his grandfather's example Sheikh Mithqal Pasha Al-Fayez who helped establish the Emirate of Transjordan in 1921. Al-Fayez developed an interest in horseback and motorbike riding from an early age. In 1990, Al-Fayez graduated from the University of Jordan with a Bachelors in Political science, later got married in 1993 to Mrs. Muna Shaheen, and together they have three sons. Political career Al-Fayez began his career as a statesman in 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Language
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as ( "the eloquent Arabic") or simply ' (). Arabic is the List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language, third most widespread official language after English and French, one of six official languages of the United Nations, and the Sacred language, liturgical language of Islam. Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Spring
The Arab Spring () was a series of Nonviolent resistance, anti-government protests, Rebellion, uprisings, and Insurgency, armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began Tunisian revolution, in Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation. From Tunisia, the protests initially spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Rulers were deposed (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt all in 2011, and Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen in 2012) and major uprisings and social violence occurred, including riots, civil wars, or insurgencies. Sustained street demonstrations took place in Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Sudan. Minor protests took place in Djibouti, Mauritania, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Western Sahara. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world is ''Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam, ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ an- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithqal Al Fayez
Mithqal bin Sattam bin Fendi Al-Fayez (Arabic language, Arabic: مثقال الفايز , ( – April 14, 1967) was a Jordanian political and tribal figure whose work helped the establishment of Jordan, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Mithqal was one of the two leading sheikhs of Bani Sakhr; he took power in the early twentieth century, and headed the Bani Sakher, Bani Sakhr tribe generally and the Al-Twaga half of the tribe specifically, which consisted of the four major clans, Al Ghbeyen, Al Ghuful, Al A'lqam, and Al Tabtab, which comprise 32 sub-clans which further divide into more sub-clans. He also headed his own clan, Al-Fayez. Early life and children Mithqal Sattam Al-Fayez was born into the family of the leading shaykhs of the Bani Sakher, Bani Sakhr tribal confederacy around the year 1885. By that point the tribe was already one of the largest and strongest nomadic tribal groups in the Syrian Desert, with an unbroken chain of leadership being passed down from father to so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Fayez
The House of Fayez (Arabic: الفايز or, colloquially: Al-Fayez, Alfayez, Al Fayez, Al Faiz, Al Fayiz) is a noble sheikhly Jordanian family that heads the major Jordanian clan Bani Sakher. The family's influence and prominence in the region was at its ultimate under Fendi Al-Fayez, who led the family in the 1840s and gradually became the leader of the entire Bani Sakher. Fendi would rule large parts of Jordan and Palestine, including the ancient Kingdoms of Moab and Ammon, and parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia until the late 1860s when a series of battles with the Ottoman Empire decreased the family's resources and claimed a portion of its holdings. After Fendi, his young son Sattam led the tribe in a push to cultivate the lands and live a more sedentary lifestyle, then under Mithqal Alfayez as a permanent political power in modern Jordan.Alon, Yoav. ''The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithqal Al-Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan''. Stanford University Press, 2016. The fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Fayez Family
The House of Fayez (Arabic: الفايز or, colloquially: Al-Fayez, Alfayez, Al Fayez, Al Faiz, Al Fayiz) is a noble sheikhly Jordanian family that heads the major Jordanian clan Bani Sakher. The family's influence and prominence in the region was at its ultimate under Fendi Al-Fayez, who led the family in the 1840s and gradually became the leader of the entire Bani Sakher. Fendi would rule large parts of Jordan and Palestine, including the ancient Kingdoms of Moab and Ammon, and parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia until the late 1860s when a series of battles with the Ottoman Empire decreased the family's resources and claimed a portion of its holdings. After Fendi, his young son Sattam led the tribe in a push to cultivate the lands and live a more sedentary lifestyle, then under Mithqal Alfayez as a permanent political power in modern Jordan.Alon, Yoav. ''The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithqal Al-Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan''. Stanford University Press, 2016. The family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
