Baker Abdel Munem ( ar, بكر عبد المنعم; 1942 – 9 April 2023) was the

Palestinian National Authority The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; ar, السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية '), commonly known as the Palestinian Authority and officially the State of Palestine,

's official ambassador to Canada. Baker Abdel Munem was born in 1942 in

Ramla Ramla or Ramle ( he, רַמְלָה, ''Ramlā''; ar, الرملة, ''ar-Ramleh'') is a city in the Central District of Israel. Today, Ramle is one of Israel's mixed cities, with both a significant Jewish and Arab populations. The city was f ...

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. Only six years later, when the 1948 mass deportation of Palestinians occurred simultaneously with the implementation of the

Balfour Declaration The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman regio ...

, he and his family took refuge in Amman, Jordan. Dr. Eng. Baker Abdel Munem
Abdel Munem, Baker. Geocities. He attended

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

in 1966, graduating with a BSc in mechanical engineering and served as head of the main electric power station in Jordan for seven years. He returned to Cairo University to continue his studies and obtained his MSc in mechanical engineering in 1975. Abdel Munem served as the vice-president of the

International Union of Students The International Union of Students (IUS) was a worldwide nonpartisan association of university student organizations. The IUS was the umbrella organization for 155 such students' organizations across 112 countries and Territory (administrative ...

from 1978 to 1983 when he obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering from

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

. In 1979, he became a member of the

Palestine 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 ...

(PNC), and an elected member the

Fatah Fatah ( ar, فتح '), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ...

-Revolutionary Council in 1989. In 1985, he earned a PhD in economics from Germany and a PhD in political science from the United States in 1988. Abdel Munem's first diplomatic post was the

Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ar, منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية, ') is a Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian nationalist political and militant organization founded in 1964 with the initial purpose of establ ...

's ambassador to Japan from 1983 to 1995. On 23 July 1995, he was assigned by the PLO to head the newly established Palestine General Delegation to Canada. Abdel Munem was married to Ghada Abu Laban, has two daughters, Madiha and Kenana and one son, Abdel Munem. He died on 9 April 2023, at the age of 80.الرئيس يعزي بوفاة المناضل بكر عبد المنعم

Bibliography

Abdel Munem authored several books. *''Palestine in My Heart'' 1991 *''The PLO and the Gulf War'' 1991 *''An Inside Story of the Middle East Peace Conference'' 1993 *''Old Japanese Folk Tales'' 1995 *''Songs to Hiroshima (Poems)'' 1996

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abdel Munem, Baker 1942 births 2023 deaths Palestinian diplomats Ambassadors of the State of Palestine to Canada Ambassadors of the State of Palestine to Japan Ambassadors of the State of Palestine to Russia People from Ramla Fatah members Members of the Palestinian National Council Palestinian expatriates in Jordan Palestinian expatriates in Germany