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Arabi Awad

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
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Arabi Awad is a Palestinian politician, born in 1928 in the town of Salfit in the central West Bank; he grew up in a family of Muslim clerics who worked as teachers in villages in the Nablus and Jerusalem regions. He graduated from Rashidieh College in Jerusalem and obtained his high school diploma in 1947 and is known for his excellence in his two years of study.

Career

He became a member of the Central Committee of the Jordanian Communist Party in 1955 and was raised to a member of the Political Bureau in 1979 and spent eleven years in the prisons of the Jordanian regime. After the June War of 1967 and the fall of the West Bank under Zionist occupation, he became secretary of the leadership committee of the Jordanian Communist Party in the West Bank. He played a prominent role in the Palestinian National Front in the occupied territory, of which the Communist Party formed its backbone. As a result of his activism against the occupation, he and seven political leaders in the West Bank were deported to Jordan on December 10, 1973, International Human Rights Day, which was approved by the United Nations.

He was elected a member of the Palestinian National Council at the twelfth session held in Cairo in June 1974, and was also elected a member of the Central Council. He stood at the head of the current that struggled within the Jordanian Communist Party to form the Palestinian Communist Party to highlight the national identity of the Palestinian communists and support the Palestinian national struggle. When the Central Committee of the Jordanian Communist Party approved the establishment of the Palestinian Communist Party on February 10, 1982.  He died in 2015.

 

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