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Ali Youssef Al-Youssef was born in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, southern Lebanon, on October 24, 1968, to a Palestinian refugee family originally from the depopulated village of Al-Samiriya in the occupied Acre district. He is married and has seven children. He completed his primary education at the Al-Faluja and Martyrs of Palestine schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and his secondary education at the Al-Zaatari Public High School in Sidon, graduating in 1986. He studied computer science at the American University of Athens, and earned a bachelor's degree in Sharia from the College of Da'wah in Lebanon in 1998, a master's degree in Usul al-Fiqh from the same college in 2000, and a bachelor's degree in Arabic language from the Lebanese University in 2000. He also holds several certifications in Quran, Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Hadith, and Aqidah.
He was an imam and preacher in several mosques in the Ain al-Hilweh camp and Sidon, and worked as a teacher at the College of Da’wah in Sidon, and as the director of Taybeh Construction Company between (1994-2000), and became the director of the projects department at the Jerusalem International Foundation in 2000.
Al-Youssef became involved in advocacy activities in the mid-1980s. He was a preacher in the Greek capital, Athens, between 1988 and 1992. He also gave lessons, sermons, and lectures in mosques and cultural, educational, and social centers in Beirut, Bekaa, and Tripoli. He participated in scientific and advocacy conferences and meetings inside and outside Lebanon. He founded, with a group of preachers, the Al-Islah Association for Charitable Work and Memorization of the Holy Quran in Sidon. He met with ministers, deputies, officials, and diplomats, and maintained a network of relationships in Islamic, Palestinian, and Arab circles.
He took charge of the establishment file in the Association of Palestinian Scholars under the auspices of the Mufti of the Lebanese Republic since 1996, and was elected as its first secretary in Lebanon in 1998. He became the media officer for the Permanent Authority for the Support of Jerusalem and Palestine in Lebanon in 2010, which is headed by Judge Sheikh Ahmed Darwish Al-Kurdi. He joined the International Union of Muslim Scholars in 2016, and was chosen as the Vice President of the Association of Palestinian Scholars - Lebanon Branch since 2023, after the Association was transformed into an Authority.
Al-Youssef was known for his role in social reform within the Palestinian community in Lebanon, as he participated in settling disputes between families, parties and spouses. He also participated in sit-ins and festivals to support the demands of the Palestinians and adherence to national principles.
Al-Youssef holds a clear political vision regarding the Palestinian issue, as he considers the Oslo Accords “a calamity for the Palestinian cause.” He believes that the paths of settlement and resistance are two parallel lines that do not meet, as the first squanders rights and the second aims to liberate the land and expel the occupation. He rejects the two-state solution and affirms that Palestine is indivisible and that the legitimate duty is to liberate it completely, while believing in the right of return and considering resistance the main way to achieve it. He also affirms that resisting the occupation is a legitimate duty imposed by Sharia and international laws. He believes that national partnership is possible on the condition of not recognizing the legitimacy of the occupation, and he believes that the Arab and Islamic nation, despite its current crises, possesses latent energies that will rise again to support the Palestinian cause.
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