Jawad Salem Al Arrayed (born 1941) is a lawyer and former cabinet member in

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

. Currently, he is President of the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs (effectively, the General Counsel to the Cabinet) and former deputy prime ministers in the Kingdom of

. Arrayed was born in 1941. He holds a degree in English literature, which he received from

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

. In addition, he also holds a law degree, which he obtained from

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Career

Public Service Arrayed was a public prosecutor from 1969 to 1971. He became labor and social affairs minister in 1971 and minister of state for cabinet affairs in 1973. Next he was appointed health minister and chairman of the environmental protection committee in 1982. His tenure as health minister lasted until 1995. National Claims for the Hawar Islands As one of the highest ranking Bahrainis educated and trained as a lawyer, Al Arrayed advised

Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa (; 3 June 1931 – 6 March 1999) was the first emir of Bahrain from 1961 until his death in 1999. Born in Jasra, Bahrain, he became emir upon the death of his father, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. Early life and reig ...

and his government on the emirate's legal battle with

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over the

Hawar Islands , native_name_link = Arabic language , native_name_lang = , sobriquet = , location = Persian Gulf , coordinates = , archipelago = Bahrain , waterbody = Persian Gulf , total_islands = , major_islands ...

. In that international dispute, Al Arayyed submitted to the

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that Bahrain is sovereign over the Hawar Islands, including Janan and Hadd Janan.

, as a result of the work and advocacy by Minister Al Arrayed and its other legal advisers, ultimately prevailed at the ICJ, and these islands were recognized by the community of nations as belonging to Bahrain. Other Cabinet Positions Al Arrayed served as municipality minister from 1999 to November 2002. He was appointed Minister of Justice on 11 November 2002. His term lasted until 2005 and he was replaced by Mohammed Ali Sitri. During this period he was also advisor to the prime minister for legal affairs. He was appointed deputy prime minister in the reshuffle on 11 December 2006 that followed the victory of Shia Islamist party,

Al Wefaq Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society ( ar, جمعية الوفاق الوطني الإسلامية; ), sometimes shortened to simply Al-Wefaq, was a Shi'a Bahraini political party, that operates clandestinely after being ordered by the highest cou ...

, in

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. He replaced a member of the royal family, Abdullah bin Khalid Al Khalifa, in the post. Arrayed is also president of the ministerial committee for legal affairs.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arrayedh, Jawad 1941 births Living people Cairo University alumni Bahraini Shia Muslims Government ministers of Bahrain Al Wefaq politicians Alumni of the University of Leeds