Arabi Awwad

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bayane al-Yaoume. عربي موسى عواد ..ثمانية عقود من النضال الصلب في سبيل حرية واستقلال وطنه وشعبه وأمته
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SANA. الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني الثوري ينعى أمينه العام عربي موسى عواد
  3. ↑ Zachary Lockman; Joel Beinin (January 1989). Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation. South End Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-89608-363-9.
  4. 1 2 Riyāḍ Najīb Rayyis; Dunia Nahas (1974). Guerrillas for Palestine. St. Martin's Press. p. 278.
  5. 1 2 3 Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 29. Institute for Palestine Studies and Kuwait University, 1999. p. 66
  6. ↑ Joost R. Hiltermann (January 1993). Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories. Princeton University Press. p. 45. ISBN 0-691-02480-4.
  7. ↑ J. Metzger; M. Orth; C. Sterzing (1980). Das ist unser Land: Westbank und Gaza-Streifen unter israelischer Besatzung. Lamuv-Verlag. p. 289. ISBN 978-3-921521-20-5.
  8. ↑ Amal Jamal (2005). The Palestinian National Movement: Politics of Contention, 1967–2005. Indiana University Press. p. 186. ISBN 0-253-34590-1.
  9. ↑ Moshe Shemesh (12 November 2012). The Palestinian Entity 1959–1974: Arab Politics and the PLO. Routledge. p. 399. ISBN 978-1-136-28519-6.
  10. ↑ International Documents on Palestine. Institute for Palestine Studies. 1979. p. 188.
  11. 1 2 ARR: Arab Report and Record. Economic Features, Limited. 1977. p. 376.
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