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- Country of residence: Lebanon
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Izz al-Din al-Shawa was born in Gaza City in 1902. He completed his primary education there, then secondary school at the Constitutional School in Jerusalem, then joined the American University in Beirut in 1917 before heading to the University of Cambridge in Britain in 1921, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree and then a master’s degree in agriculture in 1928. .
After that, he returned to Gaza, where he worked in the development of agriculture, starting with his father's lands, and for that he imported agricultural machines.
Although Ezz El-Din devoted himself to agricultural projects, his preoccupation with the cause of Palestinian and Arab national liberation continued to preoccupy him.
Therefore, when the revolution of 1929 broke out, he participated in it, so he was arrested and sentenced to one month in prison.
In the year 1930, Izz al-Din was appointed director of the Village Teachers School of the Khadoori Agricultural School in Tulkarm, then he was transferred to Haifa as a district commissioner, then he was transferred to Jenin.
In 1936 Izz al-Din participated in the revolution and joined the forces of Fawzi al-Qawuqji while he was still in his job in Jenin, so in 1937 the British Mandate Authority decided to transfer him from Jenin to Haifa, so he fled. There are different accounts of his escape from Haifa, where the Palestinian Encyclopedia states that he fled to Damascus and from there to Beirut, while the Encyclopedia of Flags of Palestine in the Twentieth Century states that he entered Egypt with a forged passport and remained hidden there for three days for fear of falling into the grip of the British authorities, and from Egypt he went to Beirut by sea.
Under pressure from the British, the French expelled Izz al-Din from Beirut to Damascus and banned him from political activity, so he went from there to Baghdad, where he met Rashid Ali al-Kilani and established contacts with leaders in the Iraqi army, including Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh and Fahmi al-Saeed, and he obtained weapons from them that he transferred to the revolutionaries. In Palestine, and facilitated the escape of Muhammad Amin Al-Hussein to Baghdad.
In 1948, Izz al-Din was appointed by King Abdulaziz as an assistant to the governor of the pipeline, Prince Muhammad bin Ahmed al-Sudairi (currently the northern border region of Arar).
After the failure of the Iraqi army in its revolution led by Al-Kilani against the British, Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini moved from Baghdad to Tehran via Mosul in an ambulance. He was able to flee to Saudi Arabia under a false identity, where he worked in the development of agriculture in the nascent country. Izz al-Din al-Shawa was the interpreter of King Abdulaziz Al Saud in his meeting with US President Roosevelt that took place on February 14, 1945 on the deck of the US warship Quincy, which was the founding meeting for Saudi Arabia's relationship with the United States of America.
In 1948, Izz al-Din joined the Palestinian revolution, and when the Nakba occurred, he sought refuge in Lebanon, where he lived until his death on June 24, 1969.
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