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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Born on 15 June 1950 in the Askar Refugee Camp near Nablus to a family originally from the destroyed village of Jamazin; moved to Ramallah in 1965 to study at the Teacher Training Center, where he gained a Diploma in 1970; worked with Ash-Sha‘ab newspaper in Jerusalem from 1975; earned a BA in English Language and Literature from Birzeit University (1982); Fateh member; worked as editor-in-chief of Al-Awdah magazine (1982-86); imprisoned, put under house arrest and restricted from traveling by Israeli authorities; head of the Arab Journalists’ Association in the OPT from 1985-91 and later of the Palestinian Journalists’ Association; Director of the Arab Media Center in Jerusalem since 1988; head of the Advisory Committee of the Palestinian delegation to the 1991 Madrid conference; chaired the Palestinian Coordinating Committee of NGOs at the UN in 1991; appointed head of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), Ramallah, since 1993, until 2005, when he was appointed as Dep. Min. for Culture (until after the Jan. 2006 PLC elections).
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