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Hassan Abdul Rahman Muhammad (Al-Salwadi) was born in the town of Silwad in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate on January 27, 1948. He is married and has three sons and three daughters. He studied primary school at Silwad School, and secondary school at Al-Hashemite and Ramallah Secondary Schools, where he obtained his high school diploma in 1965. He obtained a diploma in English from the Teachers Institute in Amman in 1967, a bachelor’s degree in Arabic from Beirut Arab University in Beirut in 1973, a master’s degree in Arabic language and Islamic thought from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1979, a doctorate in the same specialization from the same university in 1984, and a professorship from Al-Quds University in 2001.
He worked as an English teacher in the city of Jerash in Jordan, then as a teacher in Libyan schools, a lecturer at the Teachers Institute in the city of Tobruk between (1969-1979), a lecturer at the Arab College in Amman in 1980, a teacher in the schools of the Emirates between (1981-1983), a training director at the Ministry of Education in the Emirates between (1983-1984), head of the Arabic Language Department at the Faculty of Arts at Al-Quds University (1985-1986), director of the Islamic Research Center affiliated with Al-Quds University between (1986-1995), dean of the Hind Al-Husseini College of Arts (Al-Quds University) between (1996-2000), founder of the graduate studies program at the Faculty of Arts at Al-Quds University, and its coordinator and head between (1997-2000), director of the Center for Continuing Education and Community Service at Al-Quds Open University between (2000-2001), and director For the Scientific Research and Graduate Studies Program at Al-Quds Open University from 2000 until his retirement.
He supervised a number of master's theses and discussed a number of others, and participated in the membership of a number of scientific and academic committees, religious and national institutions and centers, including the Supreme Fatwa Council, the Supreme Committee for Preaching, Guidance and Call in the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments, and the Administrative Board of the Palestinian Academics Association., the Union of Arab Language Academies since 2016, the Advisory Committee of the Heritage and Society Magazine, the Advisory Board of the Center for Future Studies and Opinion Measurement at Al-Quds Open University, the Association of Levant Scholars since 2007, Vice President of the Council of Scholars and Preachers in Palestine, President of the Palestinian Arabic Language Academy since 2016 and its official spokesperson, Secretary of the Administrative Board of the Arab Studies Association, Chairman of the Conferences Committee at Al-Quds Open University, Secretary of the Promotions Committee at Al-Quds Open University, and Head of the Studies Unit at the Al-Quds Center for Islamic Studies and Media.
He was active in the cultural and research fields, where he headed the editorial board of a number of journals, including: Al-Quds Open University Journal of Peer-reviewed Research and Studies, the Palestinian Journal of Open Education, Al-Quds Open University Journal of Educational and Psychological Research, the Journal of the Palestinian Academy of Arabic Language, and the Journal of the College of Arts (Hind Al-Husseini) for Girls between the years (1985-1989). He prepared and presented a number of programs on Palestinian Radio and Television. He also participated in a number of academic and national conferences inside and outside Palestine, where he presented working papers, research and studies.
He published a number of books, most of which focused on the issues of Jerusalem, Islamic thought, culture, heritage and figures, including: Heritage Studies (with others, 1987), Introduction to Islamic Civilization (1987), Abdel Hamid Ben Badis as an Interpreter (1988), Creativity and Conscious Understanding in Literature and Criticism (1988), Culture and Civilizational Change (1991), Dr. Ishaq Musa al-Husayni between Loyalty and Memory (1992), The Palestinian Language Academy (1994), Figures of Palestinian Thought (with others, 1994), Positions in the Life of the Arab Writer Muhammad Is’af al-Nashashibi (1998), the Jerusalemite Historian Kamil al-Asali (with others), and Jerusalem: Identity and Historical Belonging (2010). He also published more than twenty-six studies, supervised the Encyclopedia of Palestinian Popular Heritage, and verified more than one manuscript, including: The Correct Answer to the Question Related to the Iqtaf of Sayyid Tamim (1986), and Indexes of the Noble Intimacy in the History of Jerusalem and Hebron. (1987), and Itihaaf Al-Siddiq with the Summary of the Family of Al-Siddiq (2014), and he has books in print.
Al-Salwadi believes that the conflict in Palestine is an existential conflict between the occupying invaders and the Palestinian people under occupation, and that peaceful settlement and diplomatic steps will not resolve the conflict. He believes that any conflict between the occupying invaders and the people under occupation will not be resolved except by defeating the invaders, and this is a lesson confirmed by the experiences of colonized peoples throughout history, and the only way for the people under occupation is to resist this occupation until the dream of liberation and independence is achieved.
He believes that the Oslo Accords were a real tragedy and a great harm to the Palestinian cause and its future, and that the division continued for a long time and greatly harmed the Palestinian cause and the struggle of the Palestinian people. It has left groups that benefit from the division and are keen on its continuation, and it should not have continued for years. Ending the division requires great popular pressure, and he stresses that from a strategic standpoint, the Palestinian people’s goals of freedom and independence cannot be achieved except by ending the division and unifying efforts on the basis of resisting the occupation.
He believes that the occupation has been strengthened by the West since the first day of its settlement presence in Palestine, and that it has exploited the state of Arab weakness and the dependence of the official Arab level on Western policy in the Arab region. He believes that the wave of normalization is led by the West and that other waves may follow it, but on the strategic level it will fail, and the steadfastness of the Palestinians and the progress of their resistance are sufficient to hinder it.
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