Abdullah Rimawi Politician
Abdullah Rimawi (Arabic: عبد الله الريماوي) also spelled as Abdullah ar-Rimawi (born 1920) was the head of the Ba'ath Party in Jordan in the 1950s. He served as Foreign Affairs Minister in Sulayman al-Nabulsi's government in 1957. A staunch pan-Arabist, Rimawi became one of the most vocal opponents of the Hashemite ruling family in Jordan and favored union with Syria. He fled Jordan in 1957 as the result of a crisis between the leftist government he was a part of and the royal family. He based himself in the United Arab Republic (UAR; result of union between Egypt and Syria in 1958) where he drew closer to UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser provoking his expulsion from the Ba'ath Party—which was at odds with Nasser—in 1959. Soon after he founded a splinter party called the Arab Socialist Revolutionary Ba'ath Party. During his exile, he allegedly made a number of attempts to attack or undermine the Jordanian monarchy.
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| office | Regional Secretary of the Regional Command of the Jordanese Regional Branch Member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party Member of the Regional Command of the Jordanese Regional Branch |
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