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Raouf Nazmi Mikhail Salib, known as "Dr. Mahjoub Omar," was born in Beni Suef, Egypt in 1932. He completed his primary and secondary education in Egypt and earned a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University. He worked as a physician in the hospitals of Banha and Damietta in Egypt until 1967, and as a physician in the city of Tlemcen in western Algeria. He became Deputy Director of the Palestinian Planning Center during the Palestinian revolution's presence in Lebanon, and was appointed Director General in the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in 1998.
He became involved in the national struggle in his early youth, joining the Egyptian Communist Party. His first militant participation was contributing to organizing a strike on the anniversary of the British occupation of Egypt on July 11, 1950. He also participated in the armed resistance against British bases in Egypt between 1950 and 1951. He became the Communist Party official at the university and then in Cairo in 1952, and was appointed a member of the party's central committee . At that time, he believed in the importance of establishing a national front that included communists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and all other Egyptian political organizations to confront the British occupation of Egypt, and in its importance in stopping the military's encroachment on power in Egypt in 1954. During his time in the Communist Party, he lived under more than one pseudonym, including: Nassar, Rashid, Raafat, Muhammad Nassir, and Hammam.
He joined the Fatah movement in May 1969 while in Algeria, and worked to bring the communist parties in the Maghreb and France closer to the Fatah movement. He was appointed as a political commissioner in the Fatah movement in Jordan, and contributed to opening the military medical services of the Fatah movement, and established many popular clinics. He built close relationships with the movement leader Abu Ali Iyad, and then with the leader Khalil al-Wazir Abu Jihad. He lived through the confrontation between the Jordanian regime and the resistance in 1970, then he moved to Lebanon and was stationed in the resistance bases there in southern and northern Lebanon and in Mount Hermon. He was a political commissioner for the Eagles of Arqoub Battalion, and became deputy director of the Palestinian Planning Center . He assisted Abu Jihad in the western sector, and his name within the Palestinian resistance was “Mahjoub Omar”.
He participated in drafting Abu Ammar’s speech at the United Nations in 1974. He also played a central role in establishing Dar Al-Fata Al-Arabi in 1974, which was one of the first publishing houses specializing in children’s literature.
He was considered one of the theorists of the Maoist current within the Fatah movement, and one of the influential figures in the orientations of the student battalion that was later known as the Yarmouk Battalion. He was an opponent of the settlement current in the national movement, and he strongly criticized the ten-point program. He adopted the idea of a secular democratic state and a popular liberation war, but he soon sided with the settlement option and the Oslo Accords, driven by his position on Abu Ammar and his own reading of the developments of the Palestinian cause and the Arab and international realities.
He returned to Cairo in 1982 after the Palestinian resistance left Lebanon, and in Egypt he stood with the Palestinian cause and the resistance, where he and others established the National Committee to Support the Palestinian Intifada, founded a center for Palestinian research and studies, contributed to writing in the magazines and newspapers of the Palestinian revolution, and documented his experiences in Palestinian clinics and hospitals during the battles fought by the Palestinian revolution in Jordan and Lebanon. He wrote in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shaab and the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper between (1984-2000). He wrote poetry in the Egyptian dialect, and wrote short stories and plays. He published a number of books, studies, and lengthy articles, including: The Story of Ashrafieh Hospital (1971), Dialogue Under the Guns: History, Nation, Class, and the Zionist Gathering (1974), September in Southern Jordan (1977), Izz Al-Din Al-Qalq - The Word and the Gun (1978), A Viewpoint on the Strategy of the Egyptian Negotiator, Arabs of 1948: A Strategic Force That Cannot Be Neutralized (1980), and People and the Siege - Beirut 1982 (1983). His works include: Forty Abu Jihads: A Bridge of Awareness, A Reading of Political and Organizational Behavior (1988), Abu Jihad Has Not Been Gone for a Moment and Will Not Be Gone (1990), The Intifada and Its Possibilities (a collection of articles published between 1988-1989), The Gulf Crisis and Its Repercussions - A General Intervention (1991), The Oslo Accords and the New Reality ( a collection of articles published between 1993-1995) , The Israeli War in Lebanon (1996), and The Nakba of Palestine and the Steadfastness of Its People (2000). He also supervised several translations, particularly on Zionist affairs, and provided critical reviews of a number of political and intellectual books. He wrote two plays: The Seven in the Circus (1977) and The Moroccan Woman, or The Last Days of Abdullah al-Nadim's Life. His published children's stories include: The Red Dates (1975), The Boy and the Sun, The Moon and the Children, The Island of Loss, The Flower of the Moon, and The Unicorn and the Birds. He also composed a number of songs. For children.
Most of his political, intellectual, and strategic writings were collected in a book titled “The Writings of Mahjoub Omar,” with the first volume published in 2005 and the second in 2009. A book about him, “Dr. Mahjoub Omar: Raouf Nazmi – Love and Loyalty,” was also published. He was awarded the Star of Jerusalem Medal in 2004. In 2012, the Friends of Ahmed Bahaa El-Din Cultural Association established an annual prize in Dr. Mahjoub Omar’s name for the best book presenting a forward-looking and realistic vision of the Palestinian cause.
Mahjoub Omar suffered throughout his life, as he was arrested by the Egyptian authorities in January 1952, and again in November 1954. His arrests continued until 1967. He lived as a fugitive for a long period in 1953, and the Egyptian authorities dismissed him from his job as a doctor in Damietta Hospital in 1967. He faced death more than once in the events in Jordan in 1970 and the civil war in Lebanon in the seventies of the last century.
He suffered from the illness for a long time until he passed away on March 17, 2012.
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