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Nasr Muhammad Abdul Karim was born in the town of Arura in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate on June 12, 1958. He is married and has two sons and two daughters. He studied primary school in Arura and Mazra'a Al-Nubani schools, and secondary school at Sinjil Boys' Secondary School. He obtained his high school diploma in the scientific stream from Al-Hashimiya School in Al-Bireh in 1977. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and management from the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Jordan in Amman in 1980, a master's degree in business administration from Texas A&M University in the United States in 1984, and a doctorate in financial economics from Southern Illinois University in the United States in 1992.
He worked as an auditor at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Company between (1980-1982), as a research assistant at Texas A&M University in the United States in 1984, as head of the accounting department at An-Najah University in Nablus between (1984-1987) and (1992-1996), as director of the Master of Business Administration program between (1994-1998), and as dean of the Faculty of Management and Economics between (1996-1998).
He then served as Deputy General Manager of the Palestine International Bank, based in Ramallah, in 1998; Policy Director at the Palestinian Council for Development and Reconstruction (PCDR) between 1999 and 2000; Assistant Professor at An-Najah National University between 2000 and 2001; Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Birzeit University between 2001 and 2008; Senior Advisor to Economic Experts at the Palestinian Trade Center (PalTrade) between 2001 and 2003; Head of the Accounting Department at Birzeit University between 2008 and 2012; Part-time Lecturer at Al-Quds Open University – Ramallah Branch since 2010; Senior Researcher at the Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) between 2010 and 2011; Director of the Institute for Private Sector Development in Ramallah between 2011 and 2014; and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Economics for Graduate Studies at Al-Quds University/Abu Dhabi Dis between the years (2012-2013), and a professor of financial and economic sciences at the Graduate School at the Arab American University - Ramallah Branch since 2014, and founder of Kafa’a Economic and Financial Consulting Company in 2021.
He founded the Palestinian Development and Credit Company - Faten in Ramallah in 1998, and chaired its board of directors. He is a founder and board member of the Microfinance Network in the Arab World, based in Cairo, between (2002-2007), a member of the Arab Association of Certified Public Accountants, a member of the American Accounting Association, and a member of the Union of Arab Banks.
Abdul Karim was affiliated with the left in his early youth, and was a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was elected to the student association at the Faculty of Economics, and was active in the General Union of Palestinian Students, USA branch. He was also active in the workers' union at An-Najah University between 1984 and 1987. He relinquished organizational work at the end of the 1990s, and became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 2007, as well as a member of the Palestinian Independent Personalities Forum. He attended the reconciliation meetings in Cairo between 2011 and 2017.
He has written a number of research papers and studies in the field of the Palestinian economy and social justice, including: Potential reductions in the Palestinian Authority government budget (2015), Evaluating the recent amendments to the 2011 Income Tax Law from a social justice perspective (2016), An empirical evaluation of the progress made in converting the Palestinian line-item budget to a program and performance budget (2016), An analysis of the wage gap of Palestinian Authority employees (2017), The fair tax monitor in Palestine (joint, 2017), Tax justice in selected Arab countries (2018), Analysis of Palestinian economic sectors: Towards potential and promising market opportunities for companies and institutions that own them (2018), The impact of adopting the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategic planning tool on the financial performance of banks operating in Palestine (2020), Corporate governance and earnings management: Evidence from companies listed on the Palestine Exchange (2020), Corporate social responsibility and value creation: An empirical study in Palestine (2021), and Diagnosing agricultural finance in Palestine (2021).
He opposes the Oslo Accords and believes that they have deepened the Palestinian economy's dependence on the Israeli economy. He also opposes the policies of the Palestinian Authority, especially the economic policies, which have led the Palestinian people to disappointing results. He supports the national positions of the Palestinian factions that maintain the constants. He believes that the party that bears the greatest responsibility for the division is the Fatah movement, as it is the ruling party, and its national responsibility is greater as it leads the factions and must contain their differences. He believes that the Palestinian people, especially the people of Gaza, are victims of the division, as they have been placed between a rock and a hard place and their rights have been lost. He holds the governing system in the West Bank responsible for the failure of the reconciliation agreement in 2014 and 2017, and for obstructing the holding of general legislative elections, which could have united the Palestinian people.
He calls for achieving national partnership and the entry of all factions into the Palestine Liberation Organization, but without quotas, rather through elections in which the people choose their representatives. He supports the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, without relinquishing the Palestinians’ natural right to claim historical Palestine. He believes that the return of refugees is an individual right that no one can infringe upon, but that return is an unrealistic solution under the current circumstances.
It is believed that the Palestinian political system is not based on political pluralism, is marred by authoritarianism, does not reflect the will of the people, and suffers from numerous distortions. The people's resources have been plundered and squandered for the benefit of a ruling elite. He advocates for general elections as a gateway to political and institutional change and reform. He asserts that opportunities exist for positive change in the Palestinian economy, despite the obstacles imposed by the occupation, such as establishing a fair tax system, reviewing tax exemptions for major Palestinian private sector companies, pursuing corruption cases, and halting neglectful policies affecting the agricultural sector and others. He opposes normalization with Israel, supports the idea of a comprehensive Arab renaissance, and opposes Iranian ambitions in the region.
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