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Born in Khan Younis; was schooled in Khan Younis and Gaza, completing high school at the Imam Shafi’i School; received a BA in Arabic Language and Literature from Cairo University; began studying towards an MA but was interrupted by the events of the Nakba and had to stop in May 1949; worked for three years as an Arabic Language Teacher, then at the Gaza College, the Gaza Secondary School, and the Rawdat Al-Zuhour Education College in Jerusalem; moved to Saudi Arabia in the late 1940s and worked as translator in the Agriculture Dept. at the Saudi Ministry of Finance (1949-50) then in the Payroll Dept. at the International Bechtel Inc. in Riyadh until 1953; then was head of the Accounting Dept., paymaster and head of the Payroll Dept. in the Dept. of Public Works in Jeddah from 1953-58; became an interpreter in the American Embassy in Jeddah during 1958-59; worked in the Citibank branches in Jeddah (1959-66) and Riyadh (1966-80), serving as Assistant Vice-Pres. of the Member Credit Committee in 1975 and as General Manager from 1977-80; joined Fateh in 1962; also worked in the Saudi American Bank (a Citibank affiliate) from 1980 – as Vice-Pres. and Senior Credit Officer – until his resignation in Jan. 1988; was appointed by Pres. Yasser Arafat as Fateh Comptroller and Chairman of the PA’s General Control Institution in the mid-1990s; also served as head of the General Monitoring Commission since Dec. 1995 and as District Officer (Palestine) of the Islamic Bank for Development in Jeddah; issued a report in July 1997, stating that nearly 40% of the PA’s Budget for 1996 had been mismanaged or misspent, which led to a PLC vote to replace the entire PA on suspicion of corruption; in Nov. 1999, was appointed by Pres. Yasser Arafat – along with Amin Haddad and Atef Alawneh – to a caretaker committee to take over operations of the Ramallah-based Palestine International Bank, which was near collapse due to corruption and mismanagement; remained in the post until March 2003, when he became head of a new caretaker committee; was accused of violating work ethics and standing laws by a PLC report in 2004; currently serves as Auditor General of Palestine and member of the Board of Directors of the Palestinian Monetary Authority in Gaza and Governor of Palestine in the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah; has also documented and researched about an 18th Century manuscript (written by Sheikh Mustapha As’ad Al-Lukaimi) that he plans to publish soon.
