Sector : Government Officials, Ambassadors

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• Country of residence: Palestine

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1960

• Age: 64

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Hosni Muhammad Ahmad Abd al-Wahid (born January 1 , 1960 in Aqabat Jaber camp ) is a Palestinian journalist , politician and diplomat , who served as the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Argentina from February 3, 2015 to 2021.  He currently serves as the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Kingdom of Spain.

Early life and education

Hosni Abdel Wahid was born on January 1, 1960 in Aqabat Jaber camp in the Jericho Governorate in the eastern West Bank to a Palestinian family that was displaced by the Nakba from the village of al-Tira near the city of Lod . After the events of the 1967 war , his family immigrated to another camp in Jordan, where he completed his school education. He left for Bulgaria, where he obtained a diploma in social sciences , and then to Cuba, where he obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Havana . 

Practical life

Abdul Wahid worked as a journalist for Balsam magazine , and also worked as a coordinator of Arab culture for a few years in Santiago , and then as an advisor to the Education Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization . 

His political career began in the Europe Department of the General Administration for Palestinians in the Diaspora within the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, and then he assumed the presidency of the Latin America Department . Later, he was an assistant to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, then Director General of the Arab World at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Counselor at the embassies of the State of Palestine in Venezuela and Mexico , and Director General of Administrative and Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

In February 2015, he was sworn in as Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Argentina in Buenos Aires , a position he held until 2021. 

On May 19, 2022, he presented his credentials as head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission to Spain to the Spanish King Felipe VI. 

Following Spain's recognition of the State of Palestine in May 2024, Abdul Wahid re-delivered a copy of his credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Palestine to the Director General of Protocol at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Adrian Martín Cothé, on 29 August 2024. 

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