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Fathallah Hassan Muhammad Al-Salwadi was born in the city of Haifa in the occupied interior in 1923. He is married and has four sons and four daughters. He studied primary school at Al-Sabai and Al-Irshad Al-Islami schools in Haifa, and at Salwad Al-Amiriya School. He obtained a certificate of eligibility from Al-Azhar in Egypt in 1938, then a global certificate from the same university in 1939, then a higher certificate from the College of Arabic Language at the same university in 1945.
He worked as a teacher at Ramla Secondary School between 1945-1947, then at Silwad School, then at Rashidiya and Omariya Schools in Jerusalem, then at Ramallah Secondary School for three years, then at Silwad Secondary School where he remained from 1960 until his retirement in 1982. He wrote poetry, stories and memoirs for Jordanian Radio between 1955-1967, and worked as a preacher in the mosques of Ramallah and Al-Bireh between 1966-2000, and as a preacher in Al-Aqsa Mosque between 1988-2000. He also held the position of Mufti in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate between 1995-2000.
He joined the Muslim Brotherhood while he was at Al-Azhar, and participated in its advocacy and intellectual activities and its events supporting Palestine. He frequented the Muslim Brotherhood House in Al-Hilmiya, listened to the lessons of its guide, Imam Hassan Al-Banna, and got to know the group’s cadres. He also frequented the headquarters of the Young Men’s Muslim Association in Cairo, and the Sayyidna Al-Hussein Mosque and Al-Ataba Mosque. However, he left the group immediately upon his return to Palestine, and he maintained good relations with its cadres as well as the cadres of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
He practiced social reform and was a prominent figure in the West Bank.
Al-Salwadi wrote poetry and published his first poem in an Egyptian newspaper in 1937. His poems then appeared in Egyptian magazines and newspapers, such as: Al-Siyasa Al-Usbu’i, Al-Amsar, Al-Ahram, Al-Masry, and Minbar Al-Sharq newspaper, in addition to Palestinian newspapers such as: Al-Difa’, Filastin, Al-Jihad, Al-Fajr, and Al-Quds. He published two poetry collections: Al-Khawatir (1990) and Khawatir Fi Zilal Al-Aqsa Mosque (1999). He began writing newspaper articles while in Egypt, then he began writing in Palestinian newspapers, where he addressed religious, political, intellectual, social and economic issues in his articles, and specific columns were allocated to him on their pages, such as the Echo of Thoughts column in Al-Quds newspaper, which he wrote in the seventies of the twentieth century. He had literary and intellectual records with writers of his time, such as Ishaq Musa Al-Husseini and Aref Al-Aref, in addition to his membership in the editorial board of Palestinian religious magazines such as Huda Al-Islam and Al-Isra. He has a book entitled Men I Met (2015), and he also has fifty-one handwritten books on the topics of literature, thought and religion.
He died in the town of Silwad on June 4, 2000.
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