Arabi Awwad

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Arabi Musa Awwad (1928 – 20 March 2015) (Arabic: عربي موسى عواد‎‎), kunya Abu Fahd, was a Palestinian communist politician.[1][2]

Life

Awwad was born in Salfit.[2] He graduated from the Arab College in Jerusalem in 1947.[2]

He became a member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation League.[3] As an Arabic Literature teacher in Nablus he was active in student protests.[4]

In 1955 he was included in the Central Committee of the Jordanian Communist Party.[1] After the Six-Day War in 1967, Awwad was designated as secretary of the West Bank section of the Jordanian Communist Party.[1][5] Awwad was the leader of the radical wing of the party.[5]

He emerged as of the key leaders of the Palestinian National Front, which organized mass struggles inside the occupied territories.[6] Israeli authorities charged him with membership in the Communist Party.[4] He spent over a decade in Jordanian and Israeli prisons and detention centres.[2] Awwad was deported to Jordan on 10 December 1973 along with other PNF leaders.[2][7][8]

He was elected to the Palestinian National Council at its tenth session in Cairo in 1974, and included in the Palestinian Central Council.[1][2][2][9][10][11] Awwad represented the PNF in the PLO Unified Information Centre.[11] In 1979 he became a politburo member of the Jordanian Communist Party.[1]

In 1982 Awwad founded the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party and became its general secretary.[5] The RPCP took part in the armed resistance against the Israeli invasion in Lebanon, Awwad's son Fahd Awwad was killed during the war.[1]

Awwad died in Amman, Jordan on 20 March 2015.[2]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Bayane al-Yaoume. عربي موسى عواد ..ثمانية عقود من النضال الصلب في سبيل حرية واستقلال وطنه وشعبه وأمته
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 SANA. الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني الثوري ينعى أمينه العام عربي موسى عواد
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  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 29. Institute for Palestine Studies and Kuwait University, 1999. p. 66
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