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Akram Zuaiter

أكرم زعيتر

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Nablus → Amman

Palestinian politician, diplomat and writer from Nablus (1909–1996), a founding member of the Istiqlal Party. He worked in journalism and education, then served as Jordan's ambassador to several countries and as its foreign minister in 1966, and wrote books and documentary collections on the Palestinian national movement.

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Roles
Politician · Diplomat · writer
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Life in time

1875190019251950197520002025
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Aden Adde · Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali · Amin Ahsan Islahi · Habib Bourguiba · Hakim Abdul Hameed

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    Born in
    Nablus
    Died in
    Amman

    People and things also explored

    Hanan Ashrawi· Al-Dhahabi's hadith journeys, c. 700/1300· Earthquake at Ramla and the sea's recession, 425· The Faryani's Mahdist claim· Damascus submits to the Tatars, 658· Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's procession of women's hair and the march to Nablus, 606· Abdullah II of Jordan· Ahmad Shuqairi

    Sources

    • Akram Zuaiter — English Wikipedia
    • Akram Zuaiter — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Akram Zuaiter — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Akram Zuaiter”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/akram-zuaiter/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-31.

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    Hanan Ashrawi

    Hanan Ashrawi (born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian scholar and politician born in Nablus to Palestinian Christian parents and raised in Ramallah; she studied English literature at the American University of Beirut and took her doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Virginia. She taught at Birzeit University and deaned its faculty of arts, came to world attention as the official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, served as Minister of Higher Education in 1996, and became the first woman elected to the PLO Executive Committee (2009 and 2018). She founded the MIFTAH and AMAN initiatives and wrote This Side of Peace (1995).