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 Ambassador Hasan Abu Nimah, a former Jordanian diplomat and a writer and lecturer, has been appointed as director of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies. The appointment was made on 15 April 2004 by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, in his capacity as the chairman of the RIIFS board of trustees.
Most recently the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations (1995-2000), Mr Abu Nimah began his diplomatic career in 1965,
when he was appointed third secretary to the Jordanian embassy in Kuwait. For the next 13 years, he performed a variety of diplomatic roles in Baghdad, Washington, DC and London, interspersed with periods spent as the head of the research department at the foreign ministry in Amman. Promoted to ambassador in 1978, he served as Jordan's Ambassador to the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) and to the European Community, the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. His association with the United Nations began in 1990, when he was named Jordan's permanent representative to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, the World Food Program and the UN Fund for Agricultural Development. During the same period, he also served as Jordan's ambassador to Italy and as the non-resident ambassador to Portugal and to San Marino.
From 1993 to 1994, Mr Abu Nimah was a member of the Jordanian delegation to the peace talks between Jordan and Israel, which took place in Washington, DC.
Since the 1970s, Mr Abu Nimah has regularly contributed articles and commentary in both English and Arabic to a number of newspapers, including
Al-Rai, Al-Dustour, Sawt al-Jeel and the Jordan Times
(all in Amman), Al-Quds al-Arabi, Al-Sharq al-Awsat and the
Financial Times (all in London), and the Daily Star (Beirut). He currently writes on a weekly basis for
Al-Rai and the Jordan Times.
Mr Abu Nimah lectures on international relations, diplomatic practice and international law at the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy in Amman.
The appointment of Mr Abu Nimah as the director of RIIFS fills the vacancy left by the retirement, in December 2003, of Professor Kamal Salibi, Emeritus Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut (AUB), under whom Mr Abu Nimeh studied in the late 1950s. Professor Salibi was RIIFS' founding director and is currently its honorary president.
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