Hazem Zaki Nusseibeh

A long-standing foreign minister and diplomat, Dr Nussiebeh has written a most enchanting 450 pages of his autobiography, covering eight decades of a lifetime.

Hazem Zaki Nusseibeh, born in 1922, studied at the American University of Beirut and later received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1945. He became a Jordanian diplomat, serving as foreign minister from 1962 to 1963 and again in 1965, as an ambassador, and as Jordan's longtime ambassador to the United Nations (1976 - 1985).