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Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein[ a ] (born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of the Hashemite dynasty, who have been the reigning royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is considered a 41st-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [ 1 ]
Abdullah bin Hussein was born in Amman on 30 January 1962, the first-born son of Jordan's King hussein bin talal. His English mother, Princess Muna (née Antoinette "Toni" Avril Gardiner), was Hussein's second wife.
This is a list of leaders of Middle Eastern and North African states. It consists of the heads of state and government within the Arab League, and of other MENA countries outside it.
King Abdullah II is the author of Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril (2011), in which he sets out Jordan’s vision for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. Born in Amman in 1962, His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein attended Oxford University and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, received ...
18 maj 2018 · Abdullah II (born 1962) succeeded his father, the late King Hussein, as king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on February 7, 1999. Little known outside Jordan before becoming king, Abdullah has surprised many observers by displaying a natural flair for a job many said he could never handle.
The leader of the Hamas movement within the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, was born in 1962. He is the founder of the Hamas security service known as Majd, which manages internal security...
Ismail Haniyeh [e] (Arabic: إسماعيل هنية, romanized: Ismāʿīl Haniyyah [7] [5] [8] pronunciation ⓘ; [f] c. 1962 or 1963 [c] – 31 July 2024) was a Palestinian politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until his assassination in July 2024.
