Awni Abd al-Hadi

Awni Abd al-Hadi, (Arabic: عوني عبد الهادي) aka Auni Bey Abdel Hadi[1] and Awni Abdul Hadi[2] (1889, Nablus, Ottoman Empire – 15 March 1970, Cairo, Egypt) was a Palestinian political figure.

In 1930 Abd al-Hadi was a member of the Palestinian Arab delegation to the United Kingdom and a lawyer for the Supreme Muslim Council.

He was also the party's representative on the Arab Higher Committee, formed in April 1936, for which he served as general secretary.

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Awni Abd al-Hadi ended up in Cairo, Egypt with his wife, Tarab Abdul Hadi.

In 1948, Abd al-Hadi was a member and appointed Minister for Social Affairs of the Egyptian-sponsored All-Palestine Government headed by Amin al-Husayni.

London Conference, St. James' Palace, February 1939. Palestinian delegates (foreground), left to right: Fu'ad Saba, Yaqub Al-Ghussein , Musa Alami , Amin Tamimi, Jamal Al-Husseini , Awni Abd al-Hadi, George Antonious , and Alfred Roch . Facing the Palestinians are the British, with Sir Neville Chamberlain presiding. To his right is Lord Halifax , and to his left, Malcolm MacDonald . The Arab delegation refused to sit together with the Jewish delegation.