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{{Short description|Jordanian prince (born 1947)}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Hassan bin Talal
| image        = Prince Hassan bin Talal 2006 (cropped).jpg
| caption      = Prince Hassan in 2006
| succession   = [[Crown Prince of Jordan]]
| reign        = 1 April 1965 – 25 January 1999
| reign-type   = Tenure
| coronation   = [[Hussein of Jordan]]
| cor-type     = Monarch
| predecessor  = [[Abdullah II of Jordan|Prince Abdullah bin Al-Hussein]]
| successor    = Prince Abdullah bin Al-Hussein
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Princess Sarvath al-Hassan|Sarvath Ikramullah]]|1968|}}
| issue        = {{plainlist|
*[[Princess Rahma bint Hassan|Princess Rahma]]
*[[Princess Sumaya bint Hassan|Princess Sumaya]]
*[[Princess Badiya bint Hassan|Princess Badiya]]
*[[Prince Rashid bin Hassan|Prince Rashid]]
}}
| full name    = Hassan bin Talal bin Abdullah bin Hussein
| house        = [[Hashemite]]
| father       = [[Talal of Jordan]]
| mother       = [[Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil|Zein al-Sharaf]]
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1947|3|20|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Amman]], Jordan
| death_date   = 
| death_place  = 
| burial_date  = 
| burial_place = 
| religion     = [[Islam]]
}}
{{Jordanian Royal Family}}
'''Prince Hassan bin Talal'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rhc.jo/en/media/news/statement-royal-hashemite-court-12|title=Statement from the Royal Hashemite Court|work=The Royal Hashemite Court|date=1 June 2023|accessdate=1 June 2023}}</ref> ({{langx|ar|الحسن بن طلال}}, born 20 March 1947)<ref>{{cite web |title=HRH Prince EL Hassan Bin Talal |date=14 October 2020 |url=https://www.rfp.org/leadership_member/hrh-prince-el-hassan-bin-talal/}}</ref> is a member of the [[Jordan]]ian royal family who was previously Crown Prince from 1965 to 1999, being removed just three weeks before [[Hussein of Jordan|King Hussein]]'s death. He is now 20th in line to succeed his nephew [[Abdullah II of Jordan|King Abdullah II]].

==Background and personal life==
Prince El Hassan is a Prince of the [[Hashemites|Hashemite]] Kingdom of [[Jordan]]. He is the third son of [[King Talal]] and [[Queen Zein al-Sharaf]]. He is thus a younger brother of late [[King Hussein]] and uncle of the present [[King Abdullah II]].

Prince El Hassan is a descendant of [[Mohammed]]. His family is descended in patrilineage from Hassan, the elder of the two sons of [[Fatima Zahra]] and [[Ali]], the daughter and son-in-law of Mohammed. {cite}

More recent male-line ancestors served as Sharifs of Mecca. In the early 1900s, the kingdom of Hejaz was set up in western Arabia by the Western powers in order to torment the [[Ottoman Empire]], and Hassan's great-grandfather, already Grand Sharif of Mecca, was made king of this state. That kingdom did not last long, being soon conquered by [[Al Saud]]. However, one of the sons of the Grand Sharif, Prince El Hassan's grandfather, King Abdullah I, became king of [[Emirate of Transjordan|Transjordan]] in 1946. In 1949, after annexing the West Bank in Palestine, and "uniting" both banks of the Jordan River, it was constitutionally renamed the "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan", commonly referred to nowadays as [[Kingdom of Jordan]].

===Marriage and issue===
In 1968, Prince El Hassan married [[Princess Sarvath El Hassan|Sarvath Ikramullah]], whose family belongs to the feudal aristocracy of [[Bhopal state]] in central India. Her father, [[Mohammed Ikramullah]], was an Indian politician who chose to move to Pakistan at Partition and became a diplomat there. His brother (Princess Sarvath's uncle), [[Mohammad Hidayatullah]], choosing to remain in India, rose to become the 11th [[Chief Justice of India]] and then, after retirement from the judiciary, became the 6th [[Vice President of India]]. Princess Sarvath's mother, Begum [[Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah]], came from the prominent [[Suhrawardy family]] of [[Bangladesh|Undivided Bengal]]. She was the daughter of [[Hassan Suhrawardy]] and first cousin of former [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Prime Minister of undivided Pakistan]], [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]]. 

Prince El Hassan and Begum Sarvath Ikramullah first met in London in 1958, when they were both mere children. Their families knew each other very well and they played together as children. In the mid-1960s, they married with the full consent of their families. They have four children together:

* [[Princess Rahma bint Hassan|Princess Rahma]] (born 13 August 1969)
* [[Princess Sumaya bint Hassan|Princess Sumaya]] (born 14 May 1971)
* [[Princess Badiya bint Hassan|Princess Badiya]] (born 28 March 1974)
* [[Prince Rashid bin Hassan|Prince Rashid]] (born 20 May 1979)

==Education==
Prince El Hassan was educated first in Amman. He then attended [[Sandroyd School]] in Wiltshire before going on to [[Summer Fields School]], Oxford, followed by [[Harrow School]] in England, then [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], a college of the [[University of Oxford]],<ref name=adel1dec>{{cite news|last=Darwish|first=Adel|title=The court of King Hussein|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+COURT+OF+KING+HUSSEIN.-a062926821|access-date=29 June 2013|newspaper=The Middle East|date=1 December 1998}}</ref> where he graduated [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] with [[Honours degree#Honours degrees and academic distinctions|Honours]] in [[Oriental Studies]] and later proceeded to [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]]. Hassan is fluent in [[Arabic]], English, French and German. He has a working knowledge of [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and Spanish, and studied [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] at university.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rss.gov.jo/phassan.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090329080725/http://www.rss.gov.jo/phassan.html |archive-date=29 March 2009|title=H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal; Chairman of RSS Board of Trustees|publisher=Royal Scientific Society}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1965, Hassan was named as Crown Prince of Jordan after the constitution was amended.<ref name=mar1sep>{{cite news|last=Shahin|first=Mariam|title=The man who would be king|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+MAN+WHO+WOULD+BE+KING.-a062926626|access-date=29 June 2013|newspaper=The Middle East|date=1 September 1998}}</ref> He was frequently [[regent]] during his brother's absences from the country. During Hussein's final illness in January 1999, he was replaced by his nephew [[Abdullah II of Jordan|Abdullah]] three weeks before the king died.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hussein sacks brother in favour of half-English son|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hussein+sacks+brother+in+favour+of+half-English+son.-a060551492|access-date=29 June 2013|newspaper=The Birmingham Post|date=23 January 1999}}</ref> Abdullah subsequently inherited the throne of Jordan.

In 2009, he joined the project "Soldiers of Peace", a film [[anti-war movement|against all wars]] and for [[world peace|global peace]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soldiersofpeacemovie.com/about/the-cast/21/hrh-prince-el-hassan-bin-talal/|title=Prince Hassan bin Talal|publisher=Soldiers of Peace|access-date=18 October 2009|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909163025/http://www.soldiersofpeacemovie.com/about/the-cast/21/hrh-prince-el-hassan-bin-talal/|archive-date=9 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.soldatidipace.blogspot.com/2009/10/il-cast.html |title=Il cast|publisher=Soldiers of Peace|date=18 October 2009|access-date=18 October 2009}}</ref>

On 10 June 2013, he was appointed as the chairman of the advisory board on water and sanitation (UNSGAB) by the [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[Ban Ki-moon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2013/sga1411.doc.htm|title=United Nations Press Release|date=10 June 2013|access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref>

===Removal as Crown Prince===
As [[Hussein of Jordan|King Hussein]] was undergoing cancer treatment in mid-1998, the King assigned Crown Prince El Hassan a range of powers and authority to act as regent. With his newly gained powers, Hassan exercised a number of steps to consolidate his position as heir and future king, which included: (1) "orchestrating the removal of the [unpopular] government" of Abdelsalam Majali and appointing former Royal Court chief [[Fayez al-Tarawneh]] in his place, (2) organizing dialogue and reconciliation with opposition groups, most prominently the Muslim Brotherhood, and (3) attempting to effect changes at the top of the military. Hassan's attempted changes to the top hierarchy of the military angered King Hussein and led him to resume full duties as king. It is also a commonly cited reason for Hassan's removal as crown prince on 24 January 1999.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmNCDgAAQBAJ&q=Zaid+ibn+shaker&pg=PA774 | title=Political Handbook of the World 2016–2017| isbn=9781506327150| last1=Lansford| first1=Tom| date=31 March 2017| publisher=CQ Press}}</ref> Hassan's removal took shape through a 14-page typed letter, described by American historian W. Andrew Terrill as "extremely harsh", in which King Hussein expressed "unmistakable disappointment in Crown Prince El Hassan" and ordered his replacement with Hussein's son Abdullah. Terrill describes King Hussein as perhaps having felt that Hassan had "interest in shifting the line of succession to his own family", which led to his dismissal as Crown Prince three weeks before Hussein's death.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J7HsiU7161kC&q=crown+Prince+Hassan+jordan+1965&pg=PA27 |title = Global Security Watch—Jordan|isbn = 9780313366192|last1 = Andrew Terrill|first1 = W.|year = 2010| publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref>

Crown Prince El Hassan's attempted consolidation of power led the sickly King Hussein to break off "intensive" treatments for lymphoma and fly back home to Jordan in order to address the issue.<ref name="books.google.com">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qn8eSIifMmUC&q=prince+hassan+sarvath&pg=PT425 | title=The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House| isbn=9781849832007| last1=Branch| first1=Taylor| date=2 September 2010| publisher=Simon and Schuster}}</ref> At first, the King attempted to negotiate with Hassan, placing the King's younger son [[Prince Hamzah bin Hussein|Hamzah]] as Hassan's crown prince to ensure that the line of succession would not switch to Hassan's line. However, Hassan's Pakistani wife [[Princess Sarvath al-Hassan|Sarvath]] vetoed the proposal, particularly because of her reported distaste for Hamzah's American-born mother [[Queen Noor]] and her desire to have her son Prince Rashid in the line of succession. King Hussein instead replaced Hassan with his own son Abdullah, who had backing within the military and whose position as eldest son of the king would allow him to be enthroned by royal fiat, unlike Hamzah whose enthronement would require confirmation from the Jordanian Parliament.<ref name="books.google.com"/>

==Organizations==
[[File:HRH PrinceHassan (Jordan), Irina Bokova (UNESCO), Zafra M. Lerman at the Malta Conference V (Paris).jpg|thumb|Prince El Hassan bin Talal with [[Irina Bokova]] during his visit to [[UNESCO]] Headquarters in [[Paris]] (2011).]]
Prince El Hassan has been a very active participant in Jordanian and International civil society. He founded the [[Royal Scientific Society]] in 1970, the [[Annual Bilad Al-Sham Conference]] in 1978, and the [[Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought]] in 1980. He has also established the [[Al al-Bayt University]] in [[Mafraq]], the [[Hashemite Aid and Relief Agency]], the [[Islamic Scientific Academy]], the Triannual Conferences on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, the [[Amman Baccalaureate School]], and the [[Al-Hassan Youth Award]]. He founded and chairs the [[Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues]], [[Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues]], the [[Higher Council for Science and Technology]], the [[Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies]], the [[Foundation for Intercultural and Interfaith Research and Dialogue]], the [[Arab Thought Forum (Amman)|Arab Thought Forum]] since 1981, the [[Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center]], and the West Asia – North Africa Forum (WANA Forum), and was chair of the Policy Advisory Commission for the [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] from 1999 to 2002.

He has served as the president of the [[Club of Rome]] from 1999 to 2007, the board of directors for the [[Center for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution]] at the [[University of Oklahoma]], the [[Parliament of Cultures]], the [[Royal Jordanian Polo Club]], and the [[International Tolerance Foundation for Humanities and Social Studies]], and is honorary president of the [[Euro-Mediterranean Association for Cooperation and Development]] since 2012.<ref>[http://ema-hamburg.org/pages/en/association/board/executive-committee.php Euro-Mediterranean Association for Cooperation and Development Executive Committee]{{dead link|date=May 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Secretary Kerry Meets With Jordanian Prince El Hassan Bin Talal.jpg|thumb|Prince El Hassan bin Talal with Secretary [[John Kerry]] (2013).]]

Prince El Hassan is also a patron of the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit at the [[University of York]],<ref name="york.ac.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.york.ac.uk/politics/centres/prdu/our-people/el-hassan-bin-talal/ |title=His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal; Honorary Graduate & Patron |publisher=The University of York; Department of Politics |access-date=5 September 2011}}</ref> the Swiss [[Rights and Humanity]] non-profit organization, the [[British Institute in Amman]], and [[the Woolf Institute]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/about/patrons|title=Patrons {{!}} The Woolf Institute|date=26 November 2017|website=The Woolf Institute|language=en-gb|others=The Woolf Institute|access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref> in addition to being a member of the [[Global Leadership Foundation]], the Chairman the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/sg/spokesperson/highlights/index.asp?HighD=6/10/2013&d_month=6&d_year=2013 |title=Noon Briefing Highlight &#124; United Nations Secretary-General |website=Un.org |date=6 October 2013 |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref> the Advisory Board of British [[think tank]] [[Gold Mercury International]], the board of directors of the [[Nuclear Threat Initiative]] (since 2002), the Board of Trustees of the [[Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD)]] at [[University of Geneva]], Switzerland,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thelevantfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4:fiird&catid=7:continous&Itemid=3 |title=Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue |website=Thelevantfoundation.org |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref> the Executive Committee of the [[International Crisis Group]], the International Advisory Board of [[Forum 2000]], the Committee of Personalities of [[Institut Catala De La Mediterrania]], the Informal Advisory Group to the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]], the [[Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor]], the International Board of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], the Board of World Religious Leaders for [[the Elijah Interfaith Institute]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elijah-interfaith.org/?id=574 |title=Elijah Interfaith: Muslim Leaders |access-date=25 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526002533/http://www.elijah-interfaith.org/?id=574 |archive-date=26 May 2011  }}</ref> the [[Trilateral Commission]], the Advisory Council for Research of the [[Center for Democracy and Community Development]] (since 2010), and the Independent Eminent Experts group of the [[World Conference against Racism]], Racial Discrimination, [[Xenophobia]], and Related Intolerance.

Prince El Hassan supports [[ecocide]] becoming a crime at the [[International Criminal Court]] stating ''Ecocide would need to be a true ICC crime inline with the Rome Statute and in harnessing the power of international criminal law for the protection of our shared global government.'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Supporters of Ecocide Law |url=https://www.stopecocide.earth/supporters |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=Stop Ecocide International |language=en-US |archive-date=6 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606045438/https://www.stopecocide.earth/supporters |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=HRH El Hassan bin Talal delivers personal reflections on ecocide at official ICC side event | date=10 December 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4QNih4ZppQ |access-date=2023-06-21 |language=en}}</ref>

==Honours==
===National===
*{{flag|Jordan}}:

* Honorary Knight Grand Cordon with Collar of the [[Order of al-Hussein bin Ali]]
* Grand Cordon of the [[Supreme Order of the Renaissance]]
* Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Star of Jordan]]
* Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Independence (Jordan)|Order of Independence]]
* Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Star of Jordan]]
* Grand Cordon of the Decoration of the Star of the Hashemites
* Order of the State Centennial

===Foreign===
* {{flag|Austria}}: Grand Cross of the [[Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria|Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, 1st Class]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour | language = de | page=487 & 1660  | access-date = 1 November 2012 }}</ref>
* {{flag|Bahrain}}: Collar of the Order of Khalifa
* {{flagicon|Ethiopia|1897}} [[Solomonic Dynasty|Ethiopian Imperial Family]]: Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Solomon]]
* {{flag|Hungary}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/prince-hassan-receives-medal-hungary |title=Prince Hassan receives medal from Hungary |newspaper=[[Jordan Times]] |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref>
* {{flag|Italy}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=15402 |title=Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana |website=Quirinale.it |date=26 November 1983 |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref>
* {{flag|Japan}}: Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Precious Crown]]
* {{flag|Malaysia}}: Knight Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Defender of the Realm]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.istiadat.gov.my/v8/images/stories/1965.pdf|title=Senarai Penuh Penerima Darjah Kebesaran, Bintang dan Pingat Persekutuan Tahun 1965.}}</ref>
* {{flag|Morocco}}: Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Ouissam Alaouite]].
* {{flag|Morocco}}: First Class of the [[Order of Intellectual Merit]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://lematin.ma/express/2012/Maroc-Jordanie-_SAR-le-Prince-El-Hassan-Ibn-Talal-decore/168587.html|title=SAR le Prince El Hassan Ibn Talal décoré|date=3 July 2012 }}</ref>
* {{flag|Netherlands}}: Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of Orange-Nassau]]
* {{flag|Netherlands}}: Recipient of the [[Decorations and medals of the Netherlands|King Willem-Alexander Inauguration Medal]]
* {{flag|Norway}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of St. Olav]]
* {{flag|Sovereign Military Order of Malta}}: Grand Cross of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]]
*{{Flag|Pakistan}}: Grand Cordon of the [[Nishan-e-Imtiaz]]
* {{flag|Poland}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=243366&CatID=13&Type=Home&GType=1 |title=Jordan News Agency (Petra) &#124;Prince El-Hassan receives Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland |website=Petra.gov.jo |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=25 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216045450/http://petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=243366&CatID=13&Type=Home&GType=1 |archive-date=16 February 2017 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/prince-hassan-receives-polish-medal |title=Prince Hassan receives Polish medal |newspaper=[[Jordan Times]] |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref>
* {{flag|Spain}}: Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of Charles III]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1977/04/07/pdfs/A07775-07775.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003084717/http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1977/04/07/pdfs/A07775-07775.pdf |archive-date=3 October 2013 }}</ref>
* {{flag|Sweden}}: Knight Grand Cross of the [[Royal Order of the Polar Star]]
* {{flag|Sweden}}: Recipient of the [[Swedish Royal Jubilee Commemorative Medals|70th Birthday Medal of King Carl XVI Gustaf]]{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
* {{flag|Taiwan}}: [[Order of Propitious Clouds]] with Special Grand Cordon (1973)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://taiwantoday.tw/print.php?unit=4&post=5671|title=Two friends from afar|date=1 May 1973|access-date=4 April 2020|website=[[Taiwan Today]]|quote=The evening's dinner was given by Vice President Yen at the Chungshan Building on Yangmingshan. In an earlier ceremony, Vice President Yen decorated the Crown Prince with the order of the Special Grand Cordon of the Order of Propitious Clouds.}}</ref>
* {{flag|United Kingdom}}: Knight Grand Cross of the [[Royal Victorian Order]]
* {{flag|Tunisia}}: Grand Cordon of the [[National Order of Merit (Tunisia)|National Order of Merit of Tunisia]]

===Honorary degrees and doctorates===
[[File:Hans Kongelige Hojhed Prins Hassan af Jordan talar med pressen efter sitt tal i plenum under Nordiska radets session i Kopenhamn 2006 (1).jpg|thumb|Prince El Hassan bin Talal during a press conference in [[Copenhagen]] (2006).]]
In 2002, Prince El Hassan was awarded an [[honorary doctorate]] by the [[University of York]], in recognition of his contribution to the field of [[post-war]] reconstruction and development.<ref name="york.ac.uk"/> In 2004 he was awarded an honorary fellowship by [[York St John University]], for his lifelong contribution to peace initiatives in the Middle East, humanitarian projects and inspirational leadership in interfaith dialogue.

* Honorary Degree of Science, [[Boğaziçi University]], Turkey (1981)
* Honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, [[Durham University]], U.K. (1990)
* Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, [[Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies]], U.S.A. (1995)
* Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, [[University of Ulster]], Northern Ireland (1996)
* Honorary Doctorate, [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]], Russia (1997)
* Honorary Doctorate of Laws, [[University of Birmingham]], U.K. (1999)
* Honorary Doctorate, [[Bilkent University]], Turkey (1999)
* Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (Hon LLB), [[University of Hertfordshire]], U.K. (2000)
* Honorary Doctorate of Theology, [[University of Tübingen]], Germany (2001)
* Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, [[University of Oklahoma]], U.S.A. (2002)
* Honorary Doctorate, [[University of York]], U.K. (2002)
* Honorary Doctorate of Laws, [[University of Portsmouth]], U.K. (2002)
* Honorary Doctorate of Laws, [[International Islamic University, Islamabad]], Pakistan (2005)
* Honorary Degree of LLD Honoris Causa, [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) at the [[University of London]], U.K. (2005)<ref>{{cite web|title=SOAS Honorary Fellows|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/|publisher=SOAS|access-date=3 August 2014|archive-date=1 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501014222/https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Honorary Degree and the Medal of the World Academy, [[Old Dominion University]], U.S.A. (2005)
* Doctorate Honoris Causa, [[Universidade Cândido Mendes]] (UCAM), Brazil (2006)
* Doctorate Honoris Causa, [[Institute of Higher Education of Brasilia]] (IESB), Brazil (2006)
* Doctorate Honoris Causa, [[Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas]] (FMU), Brazil (2006)
* Honorary Degree in Human Letters, [[Brandeis University]], U.S.A. (2006)
* Honorary Degree, [[Soka University (Japan)|Soka University]], Japan (2006)
* Honorary Doctorate, the Faculty of Humanities, [[University of Lund]], Sweden (2007).
* Doctorate Honoris Causa [[Eötvös Loránd University]], Hungary (2007).
* Honorary Fellowship of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] (2008)
* Doctorate Honoris Causa in [[Multicultural Communication For Human And Nations Development]], [[Hasanuddin University]], [[Indonesia]], 2012

==Awards and prizes==
[[File:HRH Prince Al Hassan-Bin-Talal & Yukiya Amano (01116591) (36944559750).jpg|thumb|Prince Al Hassan Bin Talal with [[Yukiya Amano]] ([[Vienna]], 2017).]]
* The Four Freedoms Award – May 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fourfreedoms.nl/nl/laureaten/year:2014/award:freedom-of-worship-award/laureates:hrh-prince-el-hassan-bin-talal-of-jordan.htm |title=HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan – Laureaat Freedom of Worship Award 2014 – Laureaten sinds 1982 – Four Freedoms Awards |website=Fourfreedoms.nl |date=21 April 2016 |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref>
* The Abu Bakr Al-Siddique Medal of the [[Organisation of Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross Societies]] – September 1996.
* The 1995 Science and Society Prize in Madrid.
* The inaugural Gandhi/King/Ikeda Community Builders Medal and Torch of Nonviolence – April 2001.
* The Distinguished Foreign Visitor Award at the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]] in Boston – April 2002.
* The 2003 [[Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum Award]] for the Advancement of Inter-religious Understanding – June 2003.
* The [[Abraham Fund Pioneer of Co-existence Award]] (New York) – January 2004.
* The 2005 Eternal Flame Award by the Annual Scholars’ Conference of the U.S.
* The [[Calgary Peace Prize]] – 2007.
* A medal to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the adoption of UNESCO's Constitution, at the inaugural meeting of the Tolerance Foundation held at the Yusupov Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia – May 2007.
* The 2008 Abraham Geiger Award for Peace.
* The [[Niwano Peace Prize]] in Japan – May 2008.
* The Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani medallion – [[Iqbal Academy, UK]] – 2008.
* The Peace Prize of the City of Augsburg – Germany – 2008.

===Abraham Geiger Award===
The 2008 Abraham Geiger Award, named after liberal thinker of [[Judaism]] [[Abraham Geiger]] (1810–1874), was conferred upon Prince El Hassan bin Talal. The award ceremony was held in [[Berlin]] on 4 March 2008. Past recipients include Cardinal [[Karl Lehmann]], [[Alfred Grosser]], [[Emil Fackenheim]] and Susannah Heschel.<ref name="greiger">{{cite web |url=http://www.abraham-geiger-kolleg.de/en/news/news_show.php?id=4 |title=Abraham Geiger Award 2008 |publisher=Abraham Geiger College |date=2 November 2007 |access-date=5 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002091931/http://www.abraham-geiger-kolleg.de/en/news/news_show.php?id=4 |archive-date=2 October 2011  }}</ref>

"Honouring the President Emeritus of the World Conference of Religions for Peace underlines Prince El Hassan's courage in defending [[religious pluralism|pluralism]], promoting understanding among [[cross-cultural communication|different cultures]] and enhancing dialogue between [[Jews]], [[Muslims]] and Christians. The Prince's efforts to promote understanding between the Islamic and Western Worlds are crucial at a time when we seem to be drifting apart, with perceived differences appearing to overwhelm the many things we have in common, both culturally and religiously."<ref name="greiger"/>

==Publications==
* (it) ''Camminare insieme'' (with Alain Elkann et Elio Toaff), Milan, Bompiani, 2015.
* ''Peacemaking : An Inside Story of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli Treaty'', Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
* ''To Be A Muslim: Islam, Peace, and Democracy'', [[Alain Elkann]] coauthor, [[Sussex Academic Press]], Handcover, December 2003, (96 pages), {{ISBN|1-903900-81-6}}.
* ''Continuity, Innovation and Changes : Selected essays'', Amman, Majlis El Hassan, 2001.
* (it) ''Essere musulmano'' (with Alain Elkann), Milan, Bompiani, 2001.
* ''Christianity in the Arab World'', [[SCM Press]] with foreword by the Prince of Wales, 1995, (120 pages), {{ISBN|0-8264-1094-4}}.
* ''Search for Peace : The Politics of the Middle Ground in the Arab East'', New-York, St. Martin's Press, 1984.
* ''Palestinian Self-Determination: A Study of the West Bank and Gaza Strip'', Quartet Books, New York 1981, {{ISBN|0-7043-2312-5}}.
* ''A Study on Jerusalem'', London – New-York, Longman, 1979.

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39449000/jpg/_39449997_hassan203.jpg Picture of Prince El Hassan] (taken from the BBC)
*[http://www.theestimate.com/public/012999.html The Estimate – Jordan's Stunning Change: The Shift in Hashemite Succession]
*[http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1777526643 Interview with Prince El Hassan] on [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[As It Happens]]'' (2 February 2011)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111002091931/http://www.abraham-geiger-kolleg.de/en/news/news_show.php?id=4 Abraham Geiger College – Abraham Geiger Award 2008 goes to HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan] (2 November 2007)

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