Birth: NULL/NULL/1954 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, Gaza, in 1954; worked in the field of Education from 1974-84; received a Licentiate in Usul Al-Din (Muslim Religion Fundaments) in 1984; became Director of Public Relations at Al-Azhar University in 1984, serving in the post until 1990), when he became in charge of Al-Azhar’s Academic Council for two years; worked as Director for Religious Preaching and Counseling (Al-Wa’z and Al-Irshad) at Al-Azhar University from 1992-93, then as Lecturer from 1993-94; served as Deputy Assistant of the Waqf and Religious Affairs Ministry from 1994-96 and as Deputy Minister from 1996-2000; served as Khatib (Preacher) of Al-Aqsa Mosque from 1997; was appointed Acting Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs from 2000-2005; continued his studies with a focus on the Islamic Waqf in Palestine and received an MA from the University of Algeria in 2001 and a PhD from the Zaytuna University in Tunisia in 2005; was appointed PA Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs in 2005; was first elected representative of the Higher Islamic Committee in Jerusalem; is a member of the Board of Advisors at the Faculty of Qur’an and Islamic Studies, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, and Board of Trustees member of Al-Azhar University, Gaza; has published numerous articles and essays, incl. The Islamic Dimension of the Palestine Question (Arabic, 2002) and Freedom of Religion in Islam (Arabic, 2004).
