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{{Short description|Palestinian political figure}}
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| name                = Awni Abd al-Hadi<br/>{{Nobold|{{lang|ar|عوني عبد الهادي}}}}
| image               = عوني عبد الهادي.jpg
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| office1             = [[Ministry of Social Development (Palestine)|Minister of Social Affairs of Palestine]]
| term_start1         = 22 September 1948
| term_end1           = 1949
| president1          = [[Amin al-Husseini]]
| primeminister1      = [[Ahmed Hilmi Pasha]]
| predecessor1        = ''Office established''
| successor1          = [[Intissar al-Wazir]] (1994)
| birth_name          = 
| birth_date          = {{Birth year|1889}}
| birth_place         = [[Nablus]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1970|03|15|1889|df=yes}}
| death_place         = [[Cairo]], Egypt
| citizenship         = 
| nationality         = 
| party               = [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| spouse              = [[Tarab Abdul Hadi|Tarab Abd al-Hadi]]
| relations           = 
| children            = 
| education           = [[Sorbonne University]]
| alma_mater          = 
| occupation          = Politician
| signature           = 
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[[File:LondonConference1939.jpg|thumb|right|London Conference, St. James' Palace, February 1939. Palestinian delegates (foreground), left to right: Fu'ad Saba, [[Yaqub al-Ghusayn|Yaqub Al-Ghussein]], [[Musa Alami]], Amin Tamimi, [[Jamal Al-Husseini]], Awni Abd al-Hadi, [[George Antonious]], and [[Alfred Roch (Palestinian leader)|Alfred Roch]]. Facing the Palestinians are the British, with Sir [[Neville Chamberlain]] presiding. To his right is [[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|Lord Halifax]], and to his left, [[Malcolm MacDonald]]. The Arab delegation refused to sit together with the Jewish delegation.]]
'''Awni Abd al-Hadi''' ({{langx|ar|عوني عبد الهادي}}), also known as  '''Auni Bey Abdel Hadi'''<ref>{{cite thesis|first= Sarah R. |last=Irving|title=Intellectual networks, language and knowledge under colonialism: the work of Stephan Stephan, Elias Haddad and Tawfiq Canaan in Palestine, 1909-1948|publisher = University of Edinburgh|date=2017|page=82 |url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/31179/Irving2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref> and '''Awni''' '''Abdul Hadi'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awni Abdul Hadi {{!}} Arab Revolt Centennial |url=https://www.arabrevolt.jo/en/heros-list/awni-abdul-hadi/ |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=arabrevolt.jo}}</ref> (1889, [[Nablus]], [[Ottoman Empire]] – 15 March 1970, [[Cairo]], Egypt), was a Palestinian political figure. He was educated in [[Beirut]], [[Istanbul]], and at the [[Sorbonne University]] in [[Paris]]. His wife was [[Tarab Abdul Hadi|Tarab Abd al-Hadi]], a Palestinian activist and feminist.

==Political activity==
In 1911, Abd al-Hadi, along with [[Rafiq al-Tamimi]] were founding members of the Paris-based underground [[al-Fatat]] ("the Young Arab Society") nationalist society, which was devoted to Arab independence and unity. He was among the organizers of the [[Arab Congress of 1913]] in Paris. When [[Faisal I of Iraq]] arrived in Paris en route to London in December 1918 Ahmad Qadri located Abd al-Hadi {{sfn|Tauber|2013|p=116}} introduced him to Faisal who appointed him as the head of the administrative office for the Arab delegation to the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919]].{{sfn|Allawi|2014|p= 177}}
Abd al-Hadi was later an adviser to [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Amir Abdullah in Transjordan]].

On his return to [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]] in 1924, Abd al-Hadi became one of the chief spokesmen of the Palestinian Arab nationalist movement and was elected representative to the 5th (August 1922, [[Nablus]]) and 6th (June 1923, [[Jaffa]]) [[Palestine Arab Congress|Congress]] of the Arab Executive Committee for [[Jenin]] and to the 7th (June 1928) for [[Beisan]]. He was secretary of the Executive Committee's Congress in 1928.

In 1930, Abd al-Hadi was a member of the Palestinian Arab delegation to the [[United Kingdom]] and a lawyer for the [[Supreme Muslim Council]]. In August 1932 he was a founder, general secretary and first elected president of the [[Independence Party (Mandatory Palestine)|Independence Party of Palestine]], the first regularly constituted Palestinian Arab political party. He was also the party's representative on the [[Arab Higher Committee]], formed in April 1936, for which he served as general secretary. Abd al-Hadi was a moderate who was prepared to negotiate with members of the ''[[Yishuv]]''.{{sfn|Eisenberg|Caplan|1998|p=13}}

Abd al-Hadi held some responsibility for the [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine|Arab revolt of 1936–1939]]. The Istiqlal Party was banned and he, who was out of the territory at the time, was banned from re-entry to Palestine. The [[United Kingdom|British]] administration also deported three committee members and two other political leaders in 1937 (until 1941). He was a member of the Palestinian delegation to the [[London Conference (1939)|London Conference]] in February 1939.

After the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], Awni Abd al-Hadi ended up in [[Cairo]], Egypt with his wife, [[Tarab Abdul Hadi]]. In 1948, Abd al-Hadi was a member and appointed [[Ministry of Social Development (Palestine)|Minister of Social Affairs]] of the Egyptian-sponsored [[All-Palestine Government]] headed by [[Amin al-Husayni]]. From 1951 to 1955, he was Jordan's minister and later ambassador to Cairo. He was [[Ministry of Justice (Jordan)|Minister of Justice]] from July 1956 to October 1956.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.moj.gov.jo/Pages/viewpage.aspx?pageID=133|title=الوزراء – وزارة العدل الاردنية|website=moj.gov.jo|access-date=2018-06-25|publisher=Ministry of Justice of Jordan}}</ref> From 1955 to 1958, he was a Jordanian [[Senate of Jordan|senator]] and from 1958 chairman of the [[Arab League]]'s Legal committee in Cairo.

Abd al-Hadi died on 15 March 1970 in [[Cairo]], Egypt.{{citation needed| date=December 2024}}

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==References==
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* {{Cite book| last=Allawi| first=Ali A.| title=Faisal I of Iraq| publisher= Yale University Press| date = 2014| isbn = 978-0-300-12732-4 }}
* {{Cite book| last=Tauber| first=Eliezer| title=The Formation of Modern Iraq and Syria| publisher= Routledge| date = 2013| isbn = 9781135201180  }}
* {{Cite book| last=Tauber| first=Eliezer| title=The Arab Movements in World War I| publisher= Routledge| date = 2014| isbn = 9781135199784   }}
* {{Cite book| last1=Eisenberg |first1=Laura Zittrain|last2 = Caplan |first2=Neil| title=Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities | publisher= Indiana University Press| date = 1998| isbn = 9780253113054   }}
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==External links==
* [https://ebrary.net/239605/education/auni_abdul_hadi_closing_argument#2520 Auni Bey Abdul Hadi closing argument] for the [[1930 Western Wall Commission]] (also called The Lofgren Commission)
* [https://ebrary.net/239624/education/auni_abdul_hadi_public_testimony#3234 Auni Bey Abdul Hadi public testimony] for the [[Peel Commission]] (1936)

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