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Marwan Abdel-Dayem Abdel-Aal was born in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon on October 13, 1957, to a displaced Palestinian family originally from the village of al-Ghabisiyya in the occupied Acre district. He is married and has two sons and two daughters. He completed his primary education at the UNRWA-run Majdou (al-Badawi camp) and Jabal Tabor (Nahr al-Bared camp) schools. He attended secondary school at the Islamic College of Education in Tripoli, graduating in 1975. He earned a diploma in administration and accounting from the Nahhas Institute in Tripoli and a bachelor's degree in political science from the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow. He worked as an accountant in Libya until 1981.
He joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1973, participated in the founding of the Front’s Palestinian Youth Organization in 1975, became its head in Lebanon in 1978, took over the responsibility for the North Lebanon region in the Front in 1992, then became a member of its Central Committee in 1993, then a member of its Political Bureau in 2000, and was re-elected to the Political Bureau in 2022. He has been its head in Lebanon since 2001, a member of the Arab National Conference since 2000, a member of the Arab Leftist Gathering since 2010, and has chaired the Higher Committee for the Reconstruction of the Nahr al-Bared Camp since 2008.
Abdel Aal is a frequent guest on media outlets to comment on developments in the Palestinian issue, participates in conferences and seminars on the subject, and writes political articles for Palestinian and Arab newspapers and magazines. He began his literary career writing for Al-Hadaf magazine, affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and has published several novels, including: The Book of Job (2002), The Flower of Clay (2004), A Fleeing Sense (2007), Ivan the Palestinian (2010), Jafra (2012), Sherdil II (2014), and Oxygen (2019).
Abdel Aal considers the Oslo Accords to be one of the disasters that befell the Palestinian people, and the Palestinian cause paid a heavy price as a result. He believes that it is a project of Palestinian strife, and its goal is to liquidate the cause, not to solve it. It resulted in division, but on the other hand, it led to the consolidation of the radical project calling for the complete liberation of Palestine.
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