Ja'afar Tuqan

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Sheikha Salama Mosque in Emirate of Abu Dhabi by Ja'afar Tuqan

Ja'afar Tuqan (Arabic: جعفر طوقان‎) (also spelled Jafar Tukan; (19 January 1938 – 25 November 2014) was a Palestinian-Jordanian architect.

Early life[]

Ja'afar Tuqan was born in 1938 in Jerusalem, Palestine. He was the son of the Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan, writer of the poem Mawtini, the current national anthem of Iraq. He was also the nephew of both the Jordanian Prime Minister Ahmad Toukan and the Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan and thus a member of the Tuqan family.

Tuqan graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1960.

Career[]

Tuquan designed the Municipality of Amman in , and he belonged to several committees including that of the National Gallery. Ja'afar Tuqan also designed the Royal Automobile Museum, The Jordan Museum, the in Ramallah,[1] the Central Bank of Jordan building and the Jordan Gate Towers. He was the recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his 1991 design of a Children's Village - Aqaba, Jordan.[2]

Tuqan served on the Board of Trustees of the – Al Hoash.[3]

Death[]

Tuquan died on November 25, 2014 in Amman, Jordan.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Yasser Arafat Museum: Design of the Museum
  2. ^ SOS Children's Village Aqaba, Jordan Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Board of Trustees Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Jafar Tukan". Archnet. Retrieved April 3, 2017.


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