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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Oil expert "Muhammad Farouk" Ibrahim Al-Husseini was born in the city of Jerusalem in 1928. He received his education there until he completed high school, then he joined the American University of Beirut and obtained a bachelor's degree in economics in 1950. He then returned to Palestine and worked as a mathematics teacher at the Friends School in Ramallah. For a year, then he traveled to Libya and worked as a teacher for a year, after which he returned to Jordan.
He traveled to work in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1956 and worked in the General Directorate of Oil and Mineral Affairs in the Saudi Ministry of Finance.
Al-Husseini continued to work in the directorate, which later turned into the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and he harnessed his knowledge and energies to serve the Kingdom, whose nationality he obtained, and to serve its oil sector throughout his work in the Oil and Minerals Directorate, then as director of the economic department in the ministry and as an advisor after his retirement in the mid-eighties.
Al-Husseini contributed to the establishment of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and witnessed its progress. He had an active role in the successes it achieved, whether through his work in the Saudi oil sector or through his work as Director of the Economic Department in the General Secretariat of OPEC in the late sixties.
He played a prominent role in amending the course of the unequal relationship during the sixties and seventies between the governments of the producing countries, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the international oil companies working for them, especially with regard to prices, rents on the barrel, taxes, or other matters that characterized international oil relations for that period and resulted in About achieving gains for producing countries.
In addition to his successful work in Saudi Arabia, which qualified him to be one of the Arab oil experts, Farouk Al-Husseini did not stop serving his homeland, Palestine, and supporting it politically and financially. He had many contributions, especially in communicating with the people of Jerusalem, and he contributed, along with his relative Faisal Al-Husseini, to maintaining the “East House” in The city of Jerusalem is one of the symbols that confirm the Arabism of the city.
Farouk Al-Husseini died in the Jordanian capital, Amman, in early 2006.
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