Salim Zanoun ( ar, سليم الزعنون, ''Salim al-Za'nun''; 28 December 1933 – 14 December 2022), also known as Abu al-Adib, was a Palestinian politician. He served as the chairman of 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 ...

from 1993. Zanoun was one of the founders of 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 s ...

party, and remained a member of its central committee. Zanoun was born in Gaza on 28 December 1933. He began studying law at

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 1955. He obtained a diploma in law in 1957, and a diploma in politics and economy in 1958. He was elected by general assent to the presidency of the PNC in 1996, at its 21st Session held in Gaza. He assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Arab Parliament at its 16th Congress in March 2010. Zanoun died on 14 December 2022, at the age of 88.

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