Career
He served as agriculture minister between 1989 and 1990. Arabiyat was born in Salt in 1938. He became a professor and researcher at the University of Jordan during the early 1970s and joined the then new agriculture faculty.
He served as dean of the same faculty in 1989.
He furthermore served as president of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Balqa' Applied University and Mutah University. During his life he also assumed various positions at the ministry of agriculture and he was agriculture minister between 1989 and 1990.
