Khaled Al-Karaki
Khaled Abdelaziz Sulaiman al-Karaki is a Jordanian author, poet, academic and politician. He served as the Jordanian Minister of Culture and Deputy Prime Minister. He is a past president of Jerash University and the University of Jordan. He currently chairs the Jordan Academy of Arabic.
Personal life
He was born in 1946 in Al-Adnanya village in Al-Karak, south of Jordan. He was previously married to the writer Insaf Qala'aji.Education
He took his bachelor's degree in Arabic language from University of Jordan in 1969 and master's degree in Arabic language and literature from the same university in 1977. He received his PhD in philosophy from the Oriental Studies department of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, in 1980.Political career
Al-Karaki was a member of the advisory committee of the Ministry of Culture. He then served as Minister of Culture, Minister of Culture and Youth, Minister of Culture and Information and Minister of Culture and Higher Education. He was subsequently Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information and later Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education. He was a Fellow of the Jordanian Senate.During the 1990s, he served as political advisor to Hussein bin Talal, the King of the Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan. He twice served as chair of The Royal Hashemite Court.
Academic and literary career
Al-Karaki was a professor of Arabic at the University of Petra. He was the president of Jerash University. He served as president of the University of Jordan, where he has also served as a Fellow of the Faculty Of Arts, Editor of the deanship of scientific research journal, Assistant dean of Faculty Of Arts For Administrative And Financial Affairs, Chief editor of cultural journal, and Dean of the deanship of students' affairs.He is a Fellow of the Jordan Academy of Arabic, and has served as its Vice chair and Chair. He was a Fellow of the permanent office of the Arab association for comparative literature, the royal strategic studies center-Al Al-bet institute, and the Jordanian Writers Society.
He has served as head of the Jordanian Writers Society, Chairman of Jordanian Press Foundation, and deputy chair of the board of trustees of the Al-Albeit Foundation for Islamic Thought.