Jumah Hammad

Jumah Hammad (Arabic: جمعة حماد) is a writer, novelist and politician who is Jordanian of Palestinian origin. He occupied many political positions. He died in 1995 in Arish.

Early life He was born in 1923 in Auja al-Hafir, Beersheba Subdistrict, Palestine. He completed his high school education in Gaza in 1942. He joined the Palestinian Security Forces in the early 1940s and worked on radio communications in Beersheba Subdistrict. He contributed to founding Beersheba Youth Front to resist the Zionist invasion in 1946.

Career

He worked as the director of the World Islamic Congress in Jerusalem in 1954. He was appointed vice-president of the Jordanian Senate in 1971. In 1973, Hammad was appointed secretary-general of the Arab Union. In addition, he became a member of the National Consultative Council in 1978 and was also a member of the Charter Committee. In 1994, he was appointed Minister of Culture.

He was credited for creating a number of newspapers in the West Bank and East Bank such as, Al-Manar Daily Newspaper in Jerusalem, a newspaper that focuses on Arab heritage and Islamic ideology. He was the newspaper’s director and editor-in-chief since 1962. Al-Manar issued Al-Ofoq Al-Jadid magazine in Jerusalem in 1961 for five years. Jumah Hammad co-founded Amman Daily News in 1961. Following the decision to merge newspapers, Ad-Dustour newspaper was founded as a result of merging Al-Manar and Felestin newspaper in 1967. which publishes Al Ra’i newspaper and The Jordan Times.

Works

Issues of Intellect and Life, 1974 (a study/research) (original: Qaḍāyā al-fikr wa-al-ḥayāh al-Islāmīyah) Supreme Order of the Renaissance, First Class. The Jerusalem Order for Arts.