Marwan al-Muasher

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Marwan al-Muasher (Arabic: مروان المعشر‎) (born 1956) is a Jordanian diplomat and politician. After serving as the first Jordanian Ambassador to the State of Israel after the 1994 Peace Treaty, and also as Ambassador to the United States, he had been the foreign minister from January 2002 until October 2004, when he gained the post of deputy prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle which was designed to continue the process of reform and the shrinking of the bureaucracy. He was the deputy prime minister of Jordan in Adnan Badran's cabinet from October 25, 2004 to November 28, 2005. He was at the Jordanian Senate until March 16, 2007 when he joined the World Bank as Senior Vice President of External Affairs. He has written a book called The Arab Center which will be released on the 9th of May 2008.