Hikmat Zaid
Hikmat Zaid | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Transport and Communications | |
| In office 12 November 2003 – 24 February 2005 | |
| President | Yasser Arafat Rawhi Fattouh (acting) Mahmoud Abbas |
| Prime Minister | Ahmed Qurei |
| Preceded by | Abd al-Rahman Hamad |
| Succeeded by | Saad al-Din Khurma |
| Minister of Agriculture | |
| In office 9 August 1998 – 13 June 2002 | |
| President | Yasser Arafat |
| Preceded by | Abd al-Gawad Saleh |
| Succeeded by | Rafiq Al-Natsheh |
| Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council for Jenin Governorate | |
| In office 7 March 1996 – 18 February 2006 | |
| Governor of Jenin Governorate | |
| In office 1994 – 9 June 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Zuhair Manasra |
| Palestinian Ambassador to Hungary | |
| In office 1985–1994 | |
| President | Yasser Arafat |
| Preceded by | Atef Abu Bakr |
| Succeeded by | Khaled Ghazal |
| Palestinian Ambassador to Yemen | |
| In office 1979–1985 | |
| President | Yasser Arafat |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hikmat Hashim Lotfi Zaid Al-Kilani 9 August 1945 |
| Party | Fatah |
| Spouse |
Itidal (m. 1971) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Alexandria University |
| Occupation | Politician, diplomat, agronomist |
Hikmat Hashim Lotfi Zaid Al-Kilani (Arabic: حكمت هاشم لطفي زيد الكيلاني, romanized: Ḥikmat Hāshim Luṭfī Zayd al-Kīlānī, born 9 August 1945), also known by his kunya Abu Zaid (Arabic: ابو زيد, romanized: Abū Zayd), is a Palestinian politician who served as the 2nd Minister of Agriculture from 1998 to 2002 in Yasser Arafat's third government and later as the 5th Minister of Transport and Communications from 2003 to 2005 in Ahmed Qurei's second government within the Palestinian National Authority.
From 1988 up until 2008, he was a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, where he previously served as the 1st Governor of Jenin from 1994 to 1996 and represented it as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from 1996 to 2006.
Zaid represented the Palestine Liberation Organization on an international level, serving as the Ambassador to Hungary from 1985 to 1994.
Zaid is currently a member of the Fatah Advisory Council and also served from 2006 to 2013 as a senior advisor to Mahmoud Abbas for Governorates affairs.