Anastas Hanania

Anastas Hanania (1903 – 1995) was a Palestinian-Jordanian lawyer, judge, official and diplomat.

Hanania was educated at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut (now the AUB) and the Law College in Jerusalem. He entered the world of Palestinian politics in the late 1930s and 1940s.

Career
After the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, Hanania and his family left Palestine for Amman. During the 1950s, Hanania was one of the original signatories to the Constitution of Jordan of 1952, which remains the law of the land today.

Between 1960 and 1966, Hanania was Jordan's Ambassador to the United Kingdom and between 1968 and 1989, he was a Senator in Jordan's Upper House of Parliament.

Ministerial positions
Hanania held several cabinet positions in the Jordanian government including Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice and Foreign Minister

Personal life
Hanania's wife Claire Nashawati died in 2002. They had a son (heart surgeon Daoud Hanania) and four daughters (May, Lyne, Louly and Myr).