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Yasser Hassan Hussein Abdul Majeed Amr (1930 in Dura - January 24, 2002 in Amman) was a Palestinian jurist and politician . He was the first to hold the Ministry of Education and Higher Education portfolio in successive Palestinian National Authority governments .
Early life and education
He was born in 1930 in the town of Dura in the Hebron Governorate , where he grew up and completed his school education. He joined Al-Nahda College in Jerusalem and worked as a teacher between 1951 and 1955. Later, in 1960, he obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Damascus University , and then in 1961, he obtained a license to practice law .
Practical life
In 1962, Yasser Amr became a member of the Jordanian Parliament.
In 1967 he was elected a member of the Jordanian Bar Association.
In 1968, the Israeli authorities deported him from the West Bank to Jordan.
In 1969 he was elected as a member of the Permanent Bureau of the Arab Lawyers Union.
In 1985, he was commissioned to establish the Palestinian National Commission for Education, Culture and Science , having previously headed the Education Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In 1994, he was assigned the duties of Minister of Education and Higher Education in Yasser Arafat's first government.
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