歷史今天:約旦國王侯賽因繼位
【英文原文】
Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: حسين بن طلال,) (Amman, November 14, 1935 – Amman, February 7, 1999) was the King of Jordan from the abdication of his father, King Talal, in 1952, until his death. Hussein guided his country in the context of the Cold War, and through four decades of Arab-Israeli conflict, balancing the pressures of Arab nationalism, the burdens of sheltering a large Palestinian refugee population, and the allure of Western-style development against the stark reality of Jordan's geographic location.
Hussein's family claims a line of descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad. "We are the family of the prophet and we are the oldest tribe in the Arab world", the king once said of his Hashemite ancestry.
【中文譯文】
侯賽因（阿拉伯文： حسين بن طلال ，侯賽因本塔拉勒） （1935年11月14號生於安曼-1999年2月7日死於安曼）在1952年國王塔拉勒退位之後繼承王位，直到他死去。侯賽因在任期間使他的國家陷入冷戰，並在長達40多年的阿以衝突中, 很好的控制了阿拉伯民族主義的壓力，接收了大量巴勒斯坦難民的負擔和來自西方的吸引三者之間的關係。
侯賽因的家人聲稱他們是伊斯蘭先知穆罕默德的後裔, “我們的家庭有着先知的血統，我們來自阿拉伯世界最古老的部落” ，這是國王在談及他們哈桑王族家史時說道的。
