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Mamdouh Al-Aker (born 1943) is a Palestinian physician and politician . He has been part of several delegations to meetings with Israel and served as a member of the Palestinian Council for Higher Education between 1994 and 2018.
Origin and education
Al-Akar was born in Nablus , Mandatory Palestine , in 1943. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, in 1969. During his university studies, he was a member of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine .
Al-Aker became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1977. He trained in urology at King's College Hospital in London from 1979 to 1981.
Career and Activities
After graduating, Al-Akar worked in Kuwait as a physician between 1970 and 1973. He continued his practice at Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem after completing his training in London.
Akar was a member of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid peace conference in October 1991 and the subsequent negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel. He was part of the Palestinian group that drafted the Oslo Accords in 1993. However, he left because the proposed agreement did not include any clauses requiring a halt to settlements in the West Bank , joint control over the Jerusalem municipality , and the release of all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. As a result, he became a critic of the Palestinian Authority in 1994 when it was founded. He also criticized Israeli policies in the West Bank. He became a member of the Palestinian Council for Higher Education in 1994 and served in that position until August 2018. He headed the Palestinian Authority’s human rights organization in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Al-Akar was Vice President of Birzeit University , and participated in the establishment of the first Palestinian medical school at Al-Quds University in 1995, and was a member of its steering committee. He is a consultant urologist at Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem .
Akar has been a member of several organizations. He is a co-founder of the Mandela Institute for Palestinian Political Prisoners, and served as vice-chairman of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizen's Rights. He is treasurer of the Barenboim-Said Center for Music, based in Ramallah .
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Israeli forces arrested Al-Akar several times. They accused him of being linked to Palestinian resistance factions, and he was imprisoned in 1991 without any formal charge. He was arrested in 2002 and imprisoned for 40 days in solitary confinement .
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