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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Amal Tawfiq Abdel Hadi Hamad was born in the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip on June 12, 1963. She studied the primary and secondary stages in the schools of Beit Hanoun, and completed her secondary education in the scientific branch in 1982. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Birzeit University in 1987, a Diploma in Curriculum and Instruction from Al-Aqsa University in the Gaza Strip in 1997, a Diploma in Educational Psychology from the same university in 1998, a Master’s degree in Social Psychology from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 2001, and a PhD in Philosophy from the same university in 2015. She also completed thirty training courses in Palestine and abroad.
She worked as a mathematics teacher in UNRWA schools for ten years, and worked as a project manager in the Ministry of Social Affairs, then as a general manager in the Women and Child Unit in the Legislative Council, and was appointed Minister of Women’s Affairs in the eighteenth government headed by Mohammad Shtayyeh in 2019.
She was interested in women’s issues and the legal status of women, and was a coordinator in the first social work committee for women affiliated with the Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip, and a coordinator in the Union of Women’s Committees for Social Work in the early nineties of the twentieth century, and secretary of the women’s mock parliament, and became the head of the General Union of Palestinian Women in the Gaza Strip since 2007.
She joined the Fatah movement and was active in the student field during her university studies at Birzeit University. She was the youth coordinator in the Gaza Strip. She also assumed organizational positions within the Fatah movement, where she was elected as a member of the Fatah movement’s regional committee in the northern Gaza Strip in 1995, a member of the leadership of the Gaza Strip arena, a member of the mobilization and organization committee, and gained membership in the Fatah Revolutionary Council in 2009. She became the deputy secretary of the Revolutionary Council and a member of the movement’s central committee in 2012, appointed by President Mahmoud Abbas. She was chosen as the deputy commissioner of international relations for the Fatah movement, a member of the Palestinian National Council, and a member of the Higher National Committee for Follow-up with the International Criminal Court, which was formed in 2015.
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