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- Country of residence: American Samoa
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Born in Arrabeh, near Jenin, in 1954; holds a PhD in Statistics from Cornell University; Deputy-Director of the technical committees supporting the Palestinian negotiating team during the Madrid/Washington talks; stated his belief in an ultimate federation between Jordan and a Palestinian entity; began work on an Emergency Assistance Program for the World Bank via PECDAR in 1994; serves as Deputy Director of PECDAR and as Pres. of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics; writes short stories; was assigned by PM Ahmed Qrei’a’s as his Chief Bureau Minister in 2004; approved by the PLC as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the Qrei’a Cabinet on 16 Feb. 2005 (until the 2006 PLC elections). Appointed as Gen. Sec. of the PA Government headed by P.M. Salam Fayyad in 2009.
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