Ibrahim Hashem

Ibrahim Hashem CBE (Arabic: إبراهيم هاشم;‎ 1886[1] – 14 July 1958) was a Jordanian politician and judge, known primarily for serving five terms as Prime Minister of Jordan.

After graduation, Hashem worked as an assistant to the Prosecutor General of Beirut, and as a judge in Jaffa until the outbreak of World War One.

Though Hashem was enlisted as an Ottoman reserve officer during the War, he chose to flee after six months of service, owing to the massacre of Arab activists by Jamal Pasha.

He is said to have had "many secret meetings with Emir Shakir Bin Zayd" and to have "actively ventured in enlisting many chiefs, activists and tribal leaders to the Arab Revolt".

At only 34 years of age, Hashem was appointed to the position of "Judicial Adviser" (Minister of Justice) during the first government of Rida al-Rikabi.

When Abdullah and Rikabi departed to London for mandate negotiations on 3 October 1922, Shakir bin Zayd was appointed the acting prime minister, with Hashem as his assistant.

Then President of the Senate, Hashem was appointed as a member of a three-man interim Throne Council which acted for the absent sovereign.

In 1955, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan joined the United Kingdom in forming the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), a military alliance, popularly known as the Baghdad Pact.

In spite of these arrangements, parliamentary delegates of the dissolved Chamber objected that the royal decree was unconstitutional, since it did not include the signature of the minister of the interior, as was required by the Jordanian Constitution.

Seen as royalist politicians, Ibrahim Hashem, along with Suleiman Toukan and Khulsi Al Khairi, respectively the Federation's ministers of defence and foreign affairs, were assassinated at the outset of the Revolution.

From right to left, Ibrahim Hashem, Abdullah I of Jordan , Saud of Saudi Arabia , and Mithqal Pasha Al-Fayez . 1934, Jordan.
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