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List Of Fatah Members
The following is a list of members of Fatah, a major Palestinian people, Palestinian political party and militia founded sometime between 1958-1959. The list includes leaders, militants, commanders, governors, mayors and financiers that are associated with Fatah and its several various branches. List of Fatah founders and early recruits Founders *Yasser Arafat *Khalil al-Wazir First-wave recruits *Salah Khalaf *Kamal Adwan *Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar *Abu Ali Iyad, Walid Ahmad Nimr al-Hassan (Abu Ali Iyad) *Khaled al-Hassan *Fakhri Al Omari *Salim al-Za'nun *Assad Saftawi *Khaled Yashruti *Fathi Razem Second-wave recruits *Faruq al-Qaddumi *Mahmoud Abbas *Mamdouh Saidam *Nimr Saleh *Hayel Abdul Hamid *Hani al-Hassan *Muhammad Ghoneim *Ahmed Qurei *Majed Abu Sharar *Abbas Zaki *Nabil Shaath List of other senior members *Ahmad Abdel Rahman *Atef Abu Bakr *Hakam Balawi *Hikmat Zaid (former minister, governor, ambassador, and advisor) *Rawhi Fattouh *Faisal Husseini *Naim Khader *A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fatah
Fatah ( ; ), formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (), is a Palestinian nationalist and Arab socialist political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is the chairman of Fatah. Fatah was historically involved in armed struggle against the state of Israel (as well as Jordan during the Black September conflict in 1970–1971) and maintained a number of militant groups,Terrorism in Tel Aviv '''' Friday, 13 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas (; born 15 November 1935), also known by the Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Mazen (, ), is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian National Authority (Palestinian National Authority, PNA) since 2005. He has also been the fourth chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004. Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected the party's chairman in 2009. Abbas was 2005 Palestinian presidential election, elected on 9 January 2005 to serve as President of the Palestinian National Authority until 15 January 2009, but extended his term until the next election in 2010, citing the PLO constitution, and on 16 December 2009 was voted into office indefinitely by the PLO Central Council. As a result, Fatah's main rival, Hamas, initially announced that it would not recognize the extension or view Abbas as the rightful president. Nonetheless, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hikmat Zaid
Hikmat Hashim Lotfi Zaid Al-Kilani (, born 9 August 1945), also known by his kunya Abu Zaid (), is a Palestinian politician who served as the 2nd Minister of Agriculture from 1996 to 2002 in Yasser Arafat's third government and later as the 5th Minister of Transportation and Communications from 2003 to 2005 in Ahmed Qurei's second government within the Palestinian National Authority. From 1988 up until 2008, he was a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, where he previously served as the 1st Governor of Jenin from 1994 to 1996 and represented it as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from 1996 to 2006. Zaid represented the Palestinian Liberation Organization on an international level, serving as the Ambassador to Hungary from 1985 to 1994Ambassadors of Palestine t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hakam Balawi
Hakam Umar As‘ad Balawi (; 1938 – 28 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and a member of the Palestinian National Authority cabinet and the Palestinian Legislative Council. Early life and education Balawi was born in the town of Bal'a, near Tulkarm in British Mandate Palestine in 1938. He had diplomas in administration, journalism and education. Career Balawi was the deputy head of the central information committee of Fatah from 1968 to 1978. His political career began when he was assigned as the Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to Libya from 1973 to 1975, after which he became a staunch Fatah activist and then was the PLO's ambassador to Tunisia from 1983 to 1994. Yasser Arafat assigned Balawi the cabinet post of Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority in November 2003. His tenure lasted until 24 February 2005 when a new cabinet formed. Balawi was also a member of executive committee of Fatah, a member of the Palestinian National Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Atef Abu Bakr
Atef Abu Bakr, also known as Abu Farah, (; born 1946) is a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and then of the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). His membership to the latter lasted until 1990. He then rejoined the PLO. He served as the PLO ambassador in different countries between 1974 and 1984. Early life and education Abu Bakr was born in Ya'bad, Mandatory Palestine, in 1946. He is a graduate of the University of Baghdad. Career and activities Abu Bakr was a member of the Fatah. He was appointed PLO ambassador to Yugoslavia in 1974 and remained in office until 1976. Then he served as the ambassador of the PLO to Czechoslovakia between 1976 and 1983. His last diplomatic post for the PLO was in Hungary which he held from 1983 to 1984. Abu Bakr resigned from the PLO in February 1985 when the PLO leader Yasser Arafat and the Jordanian ruler King Hussein signed an agreement which allowed the king to make negotiations with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ahmad Abdel Rahman
Ahmad Abdel Rahman (1943–2019) was a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and served in different capacities under both Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas from 1967 to 2000s. Early life and education Abdel Rahman was born in Bayt Shanna, Ramla, Mandatory Palestine, on 12 November 1943. He obtained a degree in law from Damascus School of Law in 1969. He joined the PLO in 1967 and became the first Fatah representative in the Palestinian Student Union in Syria. He received his MA in political science from the American University of Beirut in 1982. Career Abdel Rahman joined the ''Voice of Al Asifa'' or ''Voice of the Storm'' in Cairo, Egypt, in 1968. The same year he was named as the Fatah representative in Sudan. He was part of the Fatah missions in Latin America from 1969 to 1971. He was the director of ''Voice of Al Asifa'' Syria between 1970 and its closure by the Syrian government in October 1973. Immediately following this incident he was arrested and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nabil Shaath
Nabil Ali Muhammad (Abu Rashid) Shaath (, ; born 9 August 1938 in Safad) is a Palestinian politician, banker, management and development expert. Academic career Shaath received his master's degree in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences. He taught at the university from 1961 to 1965. Political career Shaath has served as Palestinian chief negotiator, Palestinian International Co-operation Minister, Planning Minister for the Palestinian National Authority and Acting Prime Minister of the PNA. Shaath led the coordinating committee of the Palestinian delegation to the Oslo I Accord talks in Washington, D.C. Shaath also served as the Palestinian Authority's first foreign minister from April 2003 to February 2005. Shaath was a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information in the Palestinian Authority Government of February 2005. On 15 December 2005, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Abbas Zaki
Abbas Zaki () is the former representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon and a member of Fatah's central committee.Abbas Zaki: "Fatah Al Islam an ignorant group, hiding behind Islam" ''''. 2007-05-26. Views As a result of the conflict in the Nahr al-Bared Camp in Lebanon, Zaki proposed setting up a Palestinian security force of 4,000 to 5,000 members in the refug ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Majed Abu Sharar
Majid Abu Sharar (1936–9 October 1981) was a Palestinian writer, activist, journalist, and politician. He wrote Bitter Bread. He was assassinated on 9 October 1981 after a bomb was planted by Mossad agents in his hotel in Rome. Early life He was born in 1936 to Mohammed Abusharar and Fatima Al-Sharif in Dura. He moved to Gaza because of his father's work as a judge, as well as his father joining the Holy Jihad Army during the 1940s. Majid received his primary and preparatory education in Gaza. He later earned a law degree from Alexandria University in 1958, before returning to his hometown in Dura. Career Shortly after, Abu Sharar moved to Jordan and worked as a teacher and principal in Karak District School. In 1959, he became an editor of '' Al-Ayyam'' in Saudi Arabia. He was also socialist in his political ideals and was fairly open about such in his works. He joined Fatah in 1962 and was active in its administration. In 1964, he wrote a collection of stories called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ahmed Qurei
Ahmed Ali Mohammad Qurei (also spelled Qureia or Qurie; , ; 26 March 1937 – 22 February 2023), also known by his '' kunya'' Abu Alaa ( ), was a Palestinian politician who served as the second prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority. First appointed to the position in October 2003, he tendered his resignation on 26 January 2006, following the defeat of the Fatah party in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, and remained in office in a caretaker capacity until 19 February when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. During his tenure as prime minister, he also had responsibility for security matters. He previously served as speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and held a variety of significant positions within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from the 1970s on. Early political career Qurei was born in Abu Dis (near Jerusalem), Mandatory Palestine, in 1937. He joined the Fatah faction, the largest of the political and military organisat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Muhammad Ghoneim
Muhammad "Abu Maher" Ghneim (; born 1937) is a Palestinian politician and a senior Fatah official, being a member of the organization's central committee.Top Fatah figure Abu Maher Ghneim returns to West Bank ''''. 2009-07-29. Biography Ghneim was born in in 1937 and was involved in trade union activism in his youth. Along with thousands of other Palestinians, he was expelled from the city during the |
Hani Al-Hassan
Hani al Hassan (; 1938 – 6 July 2012), also known as Abu Tariq and Abu-l-Hasan, was a leader of the Fatah organization in Germany and member of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet and the Palestinian National Council. Early life Al Hassan was born in a village, Ijzim, near Haifa Palestine, in 1938. He is one of the founding members of Fatah, the biggest faction of the PLO, and the first Palestinian ambassador to Iran, following the revolution. During the 1970s he led the indirect negotiations between the PLO and the United States. Although opposed to the Oslo agreement, al Hassan was appointed by Arafat as the Minister of Interior. Following the collapse of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations at Camp David in 2000, Hani Al Hassan remained with Arafat and following the death of Arafat, Al Hassan accused Israel of killing Yasser Arafat. He originally studied engineering in the late 1950-60s where he organized an Islamist slate, Shabab al Aqsa, to compete in student elections. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
