Timoor Daghistani

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Timur Daghistani (born 4 January 1949, Baghdad) served as the Jordanian ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Biography[]

Son of Major-General Ghazi al-Daghistani, CVO, former ADC to King Faisal II of Iraq, and paternal grandson of Fieldmarshal Muhammad Fadhil al-Daghistani.

Education[]

Career[]

  • 2nd-Lieutenant of the Jordan Arab Army.
  • Director of Training Armoured Corps.
  • Assistant Military Attaché, Washington D.C. (1980-1983) [retired 1986].
  • Assistant Director of the Information Bureau, Washington D.C. (1986-1993).
  • Ambassador to Spain (1994-1999).
  • Ambassador at the Court of St James's (since 1999).

His military grade is Colonel.[citation needed]

Personal life[]

He was married to Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan in Amman, on 2 April 1970 and had two children together:

  • Farah Daghistani (born 25 March 1972), married 23 September 2004 Saud Abdul Aziz Suleiman.
  • Ghazi Daghistani (born 21 July 1974), married on 7 September 2006 Samanta Mahdi Saifi.

In the late 1970s, they divorced and Basma went on to marry Sayyid Walid al-Kurdi on 14 April 1980.

Honours[]

  • Order of the Jordanian Star 1st Class
  • Order of Al Istiqlal 1st Class

Foreign Honours[]

  • Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order [GCVO] (United Kingdom, 6.11.2001).[citation needed]
  • Member of the Royal Order of the Intare (Rwanda).
  • Order of the Sacred Treasure !st Class (Japan).
  • Al Merito Civil 1st Class (Spain).
  • Military order of St George 3rd Class (Tonga)

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