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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Ishaq Ahmed Al-Farhan (1934 - July
6, 2018), a Jordanian politician and educator of Palestinian origins from the
town of Ain Karem, Jerusalem. He studied chemistry at the American University
of Beirut and then obtained a PhD in Education Sciences from America.
of the leaders of the Islamic
movement,
President of the Scientific Society,
Member of the first Jordanian
advisory board.
He entered the government of Wasfi
al-Tal in 1970, as he believed in Wasfi al-Tal's reformist approach, then he
defected from the Islamic Movement during his assumption of the position of
Minister of Education and Endowments in 1973, in which he supervised the
formulation of educational curricula in the government of Ahmed al-Lawzi.
Receiving the presidency of the
University of Jordan,
He returned strongly to manage the
Islamic movement by taking over the secretariat of the Islamic Action Front.
He was a member of the Senate from
1989-1993.
President of Zarqa Private
University from 1994 to 2007
His interviews on Al-Jazeera channel
Unlimited Program:
The impact of changing curricula on
the identity of the mother, February 18, 2004
The anniversary of the Nakba.. and
the weakness of sympathy with the Palestinian cause, May 16, 2001 AD
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