HASAN ABDUL-RAHIM ABU NIMAH was born in 1935, in Battir, Palestine. He attended schools in Battir and Bethlehem and graduated from the American University in Beirut. He taught in UNRWA schools for four years, before joining the Jordanian diplomatic service from 1965–2000, serving in embassies in Kuwait, Baghdad, Washington and London. He was appointed ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the European Community in 1979 and, from 1990, served as ambassador to Italy and non-resident ambassador to Portugal and San Marino. In 1995, he was appointed as Jordan’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York and non-resident ambassador to Cuba. He was a member of the Jordanian delegation to the Washington peace talks in 1992–1993. Following retirement from the diplomatic service, he served as director of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Jordan (2004–2009) and director of the Regional Human Security Center in Jordan (2009–2011). He was a member of the Jordanian Senate from 2013–2020. He has been writing columns in English and Arabic for 40 years.