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- Country of residence: Syria
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Fayez Qandil (born on November 18, 1933 in Samakh, died on March 31, 2019 in Damascus), a Syrian-Palestinian journalist and broadcaster, and a politician in the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and the Palestinian Thunderbolt Organization.
his life
He was born in Samakh, near Tiberias, on November 18, 1933, where he received his primary education, and joined the Arab College in Jerusalem. In the 1948 war, he took refuge with his family in Damascus, where he completed his secondary education and studied Arabic literature at its university. After graduating, he worked as a teacher.
During his university studies, he joined the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and occupied the position of band secretary at the Faculty of Arts. He worked as a volunteer in the Baath newspaper in the fifties, and was translating stories for it from the English language.. He worked in 1959 as a broadcaster in Sawt al-Arab during the period of Egyptian-Syrian unity. In 1964 he worked as a broadcaster on the Palestine Liberation Organization Radio in Cairo, and in 1965 he held the position of its assistant director. In 1968 he returned to Syria. In 1969 he married Osima Abdel Rahman Qaziz, and they have three children.
He worked in the years 1970 and 1971 as director of the Syrian radio, and worked in the press, and from 1976 headed the editor of the Al-Tala’i magazine, which was published by the Palestinian Thunderbolt Organization.
political sites
He held several party and union leadership positions:
Member of the leadership of the Baath Party branch in the Syrian city of Hasaka in 1956.
Member of the leadership of the Baath Party branch in the Syrian city of Qamishli in 1957.
Membership of the Qatari Cultural Office of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
Membership of the Cultural Bureau in the National Leadership of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
Membership of the Executive Office of the Union of Arab Journalists.
Membership of the Executive Office of the Palestinian Journalists Union.
of his books
"The Winds of October" about the October war
From the Palestinian angle, which is about the literature of the Palestinian issue.
Sadatism from where and to where.
Heritage for All on Arab Heritage.
The Road to Kairouan.
The "War of Terminology", which more than twenty-five people have been slow to complete, is about the terms that Israel and its allies have inserted into the Arab media and the search for alternative terms.
his death
He died at dawn on Sunday, March 31, 2019 at the age of 86, after suffering a severe crisis that started with water in the lung, accompanied by suffocation in breathing and then a sudden stop of the heart muscle.
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