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Hani Adnan Al-Masri was born in Nablus on June 28, 1954. He studied primary and secondary school in Nablus schools and enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University in Egypt.
He worked in media, serving as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tariq al-Intisar in the 1970s, a member of the editorial board of Al-Hadaf magazine (affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) between 1981 and 1989, editor-in-chief of Nidaa al-Watan magazine between 1990 and 1992, director of Dar al-Lotus Publishing and Distribution in Amman, and a writer of political and analytical articles in Jordanian newspapers and magazines between 1990 and 1994. He also served as Director General of the General Directorate of Publications and Publishing at the Palestinian Ministry of Information between 1995 and 2005. He founded the Palestinian Center for Media, Research and Studies – Badail, and served as its Director General between 2005 and 2011. He also founded the Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies – Masarat in 2011, and has been its Director General since its inception.
Al-Masri became involved in national activism early on, starting by collecting donations for the families of martyrs and writing national slogans on walls. During his university studies, he was active in sending Egyptian volunteers to fight alongside the Palestinian resistance during the Lebanese Civil War. He participated in founding the Workers' Party in 1976 and served as its Secretary-General. He completed two military training courses and joined the Palestinian resistance forces in Beirut, participating in the fighting during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1978 and again in 1982. He left the Workers' Party in 1981 and joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), becoming one of its media officers. After the resistance withdrew from Beirut, he lived in Syria. He resigned from the PFLP in 1990 and moved to Jordan until he returned to Palestine in 1994. He then joined the Freedom List for the legislative elections scheduled for May 2021.
Al-Masri held membership in a number of institutions; he has been a member of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists since 1980, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Yasser Arafat Foundation, a member of the Yasser Arafat Prize Committee, one of the founders of the Palestine Forum in 2007, a member of the government committee in the National Dialogue Committee held in Cairo in 2009, a member of the Independent National Figures Gathering in the National Dialogue in Cairo, and attended meetings related to the National Dialogue in Damascus, Gaza, Ramallah and Cairo.
The Egyptian writer is an analytical political commentator and a frequent guest on media outlets. He has participated in numerous academic and political conferences and seminars in Palestine and abroad. He opposes the Oslo Accords, advocates for freedom of expression, criticizes the Palestinian Authority's repressive practices, supports resistance against the occupation, and believes that a political partnership based on common ground and national unity is essential for rebuilding and liberating Palestine.
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