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Samih Tubila (December 17, 1950 in Nablus [3] -) is an architect from the State of Palestine . He served as Minister of Transport and Communications in Rami Hamdallah’s third government .
Growing up and educational attainment
Samih Rawhi Afif Tubilah was born on December 17, 1950 in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank . He received his school education and obtained high school in the city. He left for the Arab Republic of Egypt , and obtained a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Ain Shams University in 1976.
practical life
After graduating, Tubaila worked in an engineering office, and later developed and held many positions, most notably: head of the Palestinian Contractors Syndicate in the West Bank from 2006 to 2008, and president of a sports club in Nablus from 2010 to 2014.
Tubaila has worked since 1985 at the Faculty of Engineering at An-Najah National University as an external member of the graduation project committees. Tubila was a member of the Palestinian Engineers Union , the Board of Trustees of Hebron University , the Nablus Municipality , the Union of Arab and Islamic Countries Contractors and later the Nablus Municipality. [7] On July 31, 2015, he was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Communications in the first ministerial reshuffle of Rami Hamdallah’s third government. [8] It continued until April 13, 2019.
In August 2015, the Minister of Local Government, Hussein Al-Araj, decided to appoint a local government committee to run the work of the Nablus Municipal Council, headed by Samih Tubaila, until the 2017 Palestinian local elections were held , in which he won.
In August 2019, he assumed the mayorship of Nablus, succeeding Adly Yaish, in implementation of a prior agreement on the nomination list for the 2017 elections. [10]
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