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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Qandil Shaker Salem Shubeir was born in the Khan al-Lut suburb of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip on March 1, 1931. He is married and has four sons and four daughters. He completed his primary education in Khan Yunis schools and at the Imam Al-Shafi'i School in Gaza. He then completed his secondary education in Egyptian schools, obtaining his high school diploma in 1948. He enrolled at Fuad I University to study medicine, earning his Bachelor of Medicine degree from the College of Medicine at the University of Baghdad in 1957. He obtained his British Fellowship in Internal Medicine from the University of Liverpool and the University of Edinburgh in 1963, and a Master's degree in Professional Medical Education from the University of Illinois in the United States in 1980. He worked as a physician in the Royal Medical Services in Jordan between 1963 and 1965, and opened an internal medicine clinic in Amman between 1965 and 1973. He participated in the founding of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Jordan in 1971, and headed its Department of Clinical Sciences between 1974 and 1977. He became Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Jordan in 1977 and served as Director General of the University of Jordan Hospital between [years missing in original text]. (1974-1978), then Director of Medical Affairs at the same hospital, and participated in the establishment of the Jordanian Islamic Hospital in 1983, and in the establishment of Dar Al-Arqam Islamic Schools in Jordan in 1987. He was Chairman of the Higher Studies Committee at the Jordanian Medical Council, and he founded the Educational Center for Human Resources Development at the University of Jordan.
Shabir joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1948, and was part of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood organization (the Brotherhood of Gaza and the rest of the Arab countries except Jordan). He was a member of the administrative body of the League of Palestinian Students in Egypt in 1950, and was active with the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. He was part of the joint dialogue committee between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Fatah movement after the setback of 1967, which resulted in the establishment of what became known as the Sheikhs' Bases; these were groups of fedayeen affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood who carried out armed struggle in Jordan under the umbrella of the Fatah movement between (1968-1970). He was the former deputy general supervisor of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, and the former head of the administrative body of the Islamic Center Charitable Society in Jordan. He participated in the establishment of the Islamic University in Gaza in 1978, and in the establishment of Dar Al-Salam Hospital and Al-Rahma Charity in Khan Yunis. He is a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Jordan.
He has several publications in the medical field, including books on: Autopsy of the Dead for Medical Education Purposes, Smoking and Cancer, and Infectious Diseases. He also translated three books into Arabic for the World Health Organization.
Shabir believes that Palestine is the entire Palestinian territory from the river to the sea, and calls for its liberation and the return of all Palestinian refugees to Palestine. He demands the achievement of Palestinian reconciliation according to a national agenda that takes resistance to the occupation as its strategic goal. He was among those who supported Hamas’s entry into the legislative elections because of what this represents in terms of increasing its representation in society.
Shabir suffered greatly in his life; he was arrested by Egyptian intelligence on charges of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, expelled from university, and deported to the Gaza Strip in 1954. He was prevented from working at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on the pretext that he held Jordanian citizenship. He died in Amman in 2005.
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