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Biography
Salameh Hammad (born 1944) is a Jordanian politician who has served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Jordan from 1993 to 1995, from 1995 to 1996 and from 2015 to 2017.
Career
Hammad was born in Amman in 1944. He studied law at the University of Baghdad in Iraq.
He oversaw the 1989 general elections as secretary-general of the Interior Ministry. In 1990 he dealt with the refugee flux from Kuwait to Jordan, which was caused by the Gulf War. Hammad was Minister of the Interior from 1993 to 1995 and again from 1995 to 1996.
He was again appointed as Interior Minister on 19 May 2015 after the resignation of Hussein Al-Majali two days earlier. On 19 April 2016 he was replaced by Mazen Qadi. When Abdullah Ensour was replaced as Prime Minister in June 2016 by Hani Al-Mulki, Hammad returned as Interior Minister. In a cabinet reshuffle on 28 September 2016 Hammad retained his position. In another cabinet reshuffle, Hammad was replaced by Ghaleb Zu'bi in January 2017.