Personal Info
- Country of residence: American Samoa
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Born in Sidreh village near Ramleh in 1948; graduated from Al-Aqsa High School in 1967; received a BA in Shari’a from the University of Jordan in 1971; returned and worked as a teacher in Ma’had Al-Mu’alimin in Ramallah from 1976-80; works as lecturer in Shari’a at Al-Quds University since 1980; received an MA in Fiqh and Shari’a from Al-Azhar Ash-Sharif, Egypt, in 1981; was arrested at least 13 times by Israel since 1986; continued his studies and earned a PhD in Comparative Fiqh from Al-Jenan University, Tarablus-Tripoli, Libya, in 1992; was among the deportees to Marj Az-Zuhur, South Lebanon, in Dec. 1992; has published widely on Islamic Fiqh and related issues; was arrested by Israel and has been in administrative detention since Sept. 2005; was elected as PLC member (Change and Reform, Jerusalem district) in the Jan. 2006 elections, while still under administrative detention; he was released on 2 March 2006 but re-arrested (along with other PA ministers and PLC members) in an Israeli military sweep against Hamas on 29 June 2006 and is still imprisoned as of July 2006.
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