Arabi Musa Awwad (1928 – 20 March 2015) ( ar, عربي موسى عواد), kunya Abu Fahd, was a Palestinian

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politician.''Bayane al-Yaoume''
عربي موسى عواد ..ثمانية عقود من النضال الصلب في سبيل حرية واستقلال وطنه وشعبه وأمته
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الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني الثوري ينعى أمينه العام عربي موسى عواد
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Life

Awwad was born in Salfit. He graduated from the Arab College in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

in 1947. He became a member of the

Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

of the Palestinian National Liberation League. As an Arabic Literature teacher in

Nablus Nablus ( ; ar, نابلس, Nābulus ; he, שכם, Šəḵem, ISO 259-3: ; Samaritan Hebrew: , romanized: ; el, Νεάπολις, Νeápolis) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a populati ...

he was active in student protests. In 1955 he was included in the

of the

Jordanian Communist Party The Jordanian Communist Party (JCP; ar, الحزب الشیوعی الاردنی, ''al-Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Urduni'') is a communist party in Jordan, founded in 1948. Its current general secretary is Dr. Munir Hamarana. It publishes ''al-Jamahir' ...

. After the

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...

in 1967, Awwad was designated as secretary of the

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

section of the Jordanian Communist Party.
Journal of Palestine Studies
', Vol. 29. Institute for Palestine Studies and Kuwait University, 1999. p. 66 Awwad was the leader of the radical wing of the party. He emerged as of the key leaders of the Palestinian National Front, which organized mass struggles inside the occupied territories. Israeli authorities charged him with membership in the Communist Party. He spent over a decade in Jordanian and Israeli prisons and detention centres. Awwad was deported to

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

on 10 December 1973 along with other PNF leaders. He was elected to the

Palestinian National Council The Palestinian National Council (PNC) ( ar, المجلس الوطني الفلسطيني, "'Almajlis Alwataniu Alfilastiniu"') is the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and elects the PLO Executive Committee, which ...

at its tenth session in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

in 1974, and included in the

Palestinian Central Council The Palestinian Central Council (PCC), also known as PLO Central Council, is one of the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PCC makes policy decisions when the Palestinian National Council (PNC) is not in session. Th ...

. Awwad represented the PNF in the PLO Unified Information Centre. In 1979 he became a

politburo A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states. Names The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contraction ...

member of the Jordanian Communist Party. In 1982 Awwad founded the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party and became its general secretary. The RPCP took part in the armed resistance against the Israeli invasion in Lebanon, Awwad's son Fahd Awwad was killed during the war. Awwad died in

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

on 20 March 2015.

References

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