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He was born in Jaffa in 1906 and studied in schools in Cairo, Mansoura, Port Said, and at the American University in Cairo. He returned to Palestine and worked as an English teacher at the Salahiyya School in Nablus, but was dismissed in 1925 for resisting the Zionist project. He returned to teach at the Salahiyya School in Nablus for a second time and contributed to the founding of a club called "Nahdat al-Shabab" (Youth Renaissance). The poet Ibrahim Touqan composed a poem for this club, the opening lines of which were:
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The youth's revival is all hope.
So follow the example of the best of the young people.
Youth Renaissance: A Symbol of Work
Congratulations to the young workers.
He resigned from his job and traveled to France, where he learned French and enrolled at the Agricultural Institute of the University of Sciences in Nancy, graduating in 1930. He then joined the Sorbonne University's Faculty of Sciences to pursue a doctorate in engineering, while simultaneously attending the School of Political Economy in Paris. He returned to Palestine to become an assistant to the chief inspector of horticulture, and later, in 1943, the chief inspector of Arab agriculture. He began working in Transjordan in 1946, rising through the ranks to become Minister of Agriculture and Construction (1960), Minister of Agriculture (1962), Chairman of the East Ghor Canal Authority, and a member of the Senate. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Reconstruction Council and as Jordan's ambassador to Tehran. Among his most prominent works is the book (The Olive Tree), which took him 14 years to write. He also wrote about agriculture, Arab tribes, interpretation of the Holy Quran, and chess. He was also a poet and had literary and linguistic interests.
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