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Ghaleb Barakat was a Jordanian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Jordan from 1965 to 1967. He was born in Amman, Jordan, on 20 September 1927. He was educated at the American University of Beirut and the University of London. Barakat began his career in the Jordanian government in 1952, when he was appointed as the Director of the Department of Education. He then served as the Minister of Education from 1954 to 1955, and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1955 to 1956. In 1965, Barakat was appointed as Prime Minister of Jordan, a position he held until 1967. During his tenure, he was credited with modernizing the Jordanian economy and improving the country's infrastructure. He also worked to improve relations with other Arab countries. Barakat later served as the Jordanian Ambassador to the United States from 1967 to 1970, and as the Jordanian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1970 to 1972. He also served as the Jordanian Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1972 to 1975. Barakat passed away on 28 April 2014, at the age of 87.

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Born 20 September, 1927
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2014

He married his wife in 1959 and had three children with her. He died on 6 August 2014.

1952

He started his career by working as press attaché at the Tourism Department in 1952. After two years he became tourisme attaché at the Jordanian embassy in Rome, Italy. In 1960 he returned to Jordan to become Director-General of the Tourism Authority, a function which he held until 1972. Between 1967 and 1972 he was concurrently Minister of Tourism and Antiquities. From 1967 to 1979 he was also a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the University of Jordan. In 1980 he became special envoy of the United Nations agency World Tourism Organization. In the same year he was posted to the United Nations Office at Geneva, where he became the Jordanian Permanent Representative and served on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. In 1985 he ended his work for those agencies and moved on to the International Labour Organization where he became Assistant Director General for activities in the Arab region until 1990.

1927

Ghaleb Zaki Barakat (20 September 1927 – 6 August 2014) was a Jordanian politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Tourism and Antiquities between 1967 and 1972 and was later posted as a diplomat to several United Nations institutions and agencies.

Barakat was born in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine in 1927 to Zaki and Fatmeh Barakat. He went to the Bishop Gobat School in Jerusalem. He studied economics and trade at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, graduating with honours in 1949.