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Mubarak Awad is a Palestinian-American psychiatrist and advocate of peaceful resistance .
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Awad is a Palestinian Christian (a member of the Greek Orthodox Church ) who was born in 1943 in Jerusalem , when it was under the British Mandate . [1] When Awad was five years old, his father was killed during the 1948 war and he became a refugee in the Old City of Jerusalem . [1] He obtained the right to Israeli citizenship in 1967 when Israel annexed East Jerusalem after the 1967 war , but he rejected it and retained Jordanian citizenship .
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