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Husni Suleiman Muhammad Al-Ashhab was born in Jerusalem in January 1915. He completed his primary education at the Islamic College and Al-Rashidiyah schools in Jerusalem, obtaining his Palestinian General Secondary Certificate (Palestinian Higher Education Certificate) in 1932 and a Higher Certificate for Secondary School Teachers from the Arab College in Jerusalem in 1941. He then enrolled at Baghdad University to study law. In 1961, he earned a diploma in basic education from Cairo University. He completed a course in educational planning at the Regional Center for Training Senior Education Officials in Arab Countries in Beirut in 1962 and a course in administration in West Germany in 1965. He worked as a chemistry teacher at Al-Rashidiyah School between 1932 and 1933, a mathematics teacher at the Arab College in Jerusalem, principal of Al-Hussein School in Hebron, assistant inspector of education in the directorates of Hebron, Amman, and Balqa, inspector of education in the governorates of Ma'an and Karak, and head of the curriculum and examinations departments at the Jordanian Ministry of Education between 1932 and 1933. (1962-1965), and Director of Education in Jerusalem from 1965 until his death.
Al-Ashhab was active on a national level; He participated in demonstrations against the British occupation since the Buraq Uprising of 1929, played a role in convening the Jaffa Youth Conference in 1933, and participated in organizing the 1936 general strike in Jerusalem and in carrying out attacks on British positions. He joined the Palestinian Arab Party in 1937 and was involved in securing weapons for the revolutionaries during the Great Palestinian Revolt (1936-1939). He joined the Ba'ath Party in 1949 and was part of the party's delegations to Arab countries on more than one official and popular occasion. He participated in founding the University Graduates Association in Hebron and was a member of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, as well as the National Guidance Committee. Following the 1967 war, he and some teachers formed a secret teachers' committee that organized a strike against the Israelization of Palestinian education. He collaborated with a number of prominent educators, such as Engineer Hassan al-Qeeq, director of the Dar al-Yateem al-Arabi Industrial School, and educator Fatima Abu al-Saud, among others. The actions of al-Ashhab and his associates led to the occupation authorities refraining from some of the harsh measures against education. He also oversaw the establishment of schools. An alternative educational institution emerged after the occupation took control of the government schools. It was called the Islamic Waqf Schools or the Husni Al-Ashhab Schools, and it consists of five main schools in Jerusalem: the Refugee Girl School, the Nizamiyah School, the Renaissance School, the Kindergarten School, and the Islamic Orphans School. Each school had several branches. It participated in the establishment of the Al-Ummah Intermediate University College and the College of Science and Technology (later Al-Quds University), the Higher Education Council, the Polytechnic Institute in Hebron, the College of Nursing affiliated with Al-Quds University, the College of Da’wah and Fundamentals of Religion affiliated with Al-Quds University, and the Arab Jordanian Kuwaiti Institute in Abu Dis.
Al-Ashhab authored a number of books that were taught in schools in Palestine, Jordan and Qatar, including a book of notebooks on chemistry and a book on scientific geography. He also participated in the preparation of a number of geographical atlases.
Al-Ashhab suffered in his life; he was wounded in the Buraq uprising in 1929, and was arrested by the British in 1936. He was unable to complete his law studies at Baghdad University due to the Nakba events, and faced some harassment from the Jordanian government because of his political affiliation until 1967. He was arrested by the occupation forces following the teachers’ strike and placed in Ramla prison.
He died on September 25, 1998.
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