hend-hakim-el-fayez Jordanian politician

Hind Hakeem Al-Fayez (born in 1968) is a media, economist, political activist, and a former deputy in the Jordanian Parliament through the women’s quota in 2013. She is considered an opponent of the gas deal with Israel and the Jordanian peace agreement with Israel, as well as an opponent of the nuclear energy project due to its environmental and health risks. Her father, Governor Sultan Mithqal al-Fayez, spent 22 years in Syrian prisons during the era of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad (he died on July 6, 2013).

her life

Al-Fayez was chosen among the top 10 female personalities in Jordan, according to the Jordan Business newspaper. One of her hobbies is horse riding. Hunting. She became famous because of the video in which she appears in the Jordanian Parliament and debates other MPs, while Representative Yahya Al-Saud urges her to sit and shout, “Sit down, Hind.” This event increased her popularity and the support of many for her, while this phrase spread due to its extensive transmission through social media, and she responded to it, which made their words top the Arab Twitter and Facebook on that day, and some arguments were issued at the time.

Study and work

She studied at Yarmouk University in computer science, finance, and graduated in 1991. After that, she worked as a systems engineer with IBM for three years. During her work in this company, she went to Britain and took courses in marketing and obtained funding from the Industrial Development Bank and established a small advertising agency and was the first implementing producer With Jordan Television and the Arab Radio and Television Network, she produced several programs for them, and worked with Jordan Television with the commercial advertising department. And she owned a service company at Queen Alia Airport with more than 120 employees. She speaks English and French fluently.

run in elections

Hind Al-Fayez ran in the Jordanian legislative elections in 2007, but she did not succeed in the elections. She returned and contested the elections in 2010, but she did not succeed in reaching again. In 2013, it succeeded in reaching the dome of the Jordanian Parliament (the seventeenth) through a quota for women in an electoral district – middle Bedouins. She got 873 votes. She was also a member of the Democratic Gathering for Reform, as well as a member of the Financial and Economic Committee in the House of Representatives, and Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Integrity, Transparency and Fact-finding Committee.

her political vision

Hind Al-Fayez is considered an advocate of Arab nationalism in the Jordanian parliament. In other words, Al-Fayez has nationalistic tendencies, as she considers the Arab leader Gamal Abdel Nasser to be her ideal, and calls for the renunciation of racist terms in the differentiation between Jordanians and Palestinians.

One of its goals is for Jordan to be a democratic state in which transparency and integrity prevail. Fighting corruption in the corridors of the Jordanian Parliament. It also opposes the peace agreement with Israel and the Jordanian gas deal with it and calls for the use of Jordanian oil shale instead of natural gas imported from Israel, so it raised a banner reading “The enemy’s gas is an occupation.” It also calls for stopping diplomatic relations with the Zionist entity, according to its claim.

As for the Palestinian cause, it is one of the most supportive of the Palestinian people, as MP Hind Al-Fayez participated in the marches in support of Gaza in Britain.

MP Hind Al-Fayez participated in the rallies in support of the Gaza Strip in the British capital in London. Al-Fayez, with the participants and activists, raised banners of protest against the ‘Israeli’ aggression and the siege that has been going on for 7 years on Gaza. The participants, who roamed the public streets, chanted calls for freedom for Palestine from the river to the sea.

arrest her

On May 16, 2019, a judicial warrant was issued for her arrest, for a sum of 12,000 dinars, and she was sentenced to 90 days in prison.
She was arrested by the Jordanian police, on her way to the capital, Amman, for a sit-in in front of the government headquarters, to demand political and economic reform, and confirmed that she was arrested over financial issues. Her brother, Zaid al-Fayez, described her arrest as a “politician in a human rights dress” and that the members of the “Bani Sakhr” clan called for an emergency meeting in Sheikh Mithqal al-Fayez’s office to discuss the repercussions of the arrest, which he described as a politician. She was released on the afternoon of Friday, May 17, 2019, after paying the value of the financial claim arising from the case with the accountant of the Ministry of Justice in the Judicial Execution Department, that there is a new complaint against her and her husband, Raouf Al-Dabbas, against the background of a complaint from the West Amman police, that the security forces resisted during the arrest process of the deputy Hind Al-Fayez yesterday, Thursday, and the same complaint extended to her, as the security services accused her of resisting her arrest. While leaving Juwaida prison, she showed signs of injury, wounds and blood on her hand, which she sustained during the process of her arrest.

She says out loud:

“We have raised our hat for your stupidity. Those who lead are stupid, and we will receive leadership from you. Give us the argument.”