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Mu'in Sa'd al-Din al-Tahir was born in Nablus in 1952 to a Palestinian refugee family originally from the occupied city of Jaffa (who also have roots in Nablus). He is married and has one son and three daughters. He completed his primary education at the Martyr Salah Mustafa School in Alexandria, Egypt, and at schools in Kuwait. He attended secondary school at the Amr ibn al-Aas School in Nablus and the North Shuna School in the Jordan Valley, graduating in 1969. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and management from Beirut Arab University in Lebanon in 1975 and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Jordan in Amman in 1992.
Al-Taher became involved in national work at an early stage of his life, as he participated in the demonstrations that broke out in the West Bank in 1966 following the occupation’s attack on Al-Samou’. During the 1967 war, he was among the civil defense volunteers in the city of Nablus, and witnessed the city’s fall into the hands of the occupation. He joined the Fatah movement in 1967, and participated in the search for the weapons left behind by the Jordanian army withdrawing from the West Bank, and in recruiting new members for the movement. He was active in the ranks of the movement in the Jordanian city of Irbid, and became the head of the student organization for Fatah there. He participated in the funeral procession of the martyrs of the Battle of Karameh, and was one of the founders of the Union of Students of the Two Banks. He worked as a trainer in the cubs’ camps in the Irbid and Al-Husn camps, and joined the “Fatah militia” during the events of Black September between the Palestinian resistance and the Jordanian army in 1970. He was the deputy commander of the militia forces in Irbid during that period, among several deputies.
He devoted himself to organizational work in Fatah since 1971, and became responsible for one of its student organization branches in Beirut, and a member of the Fatah Student Office in Lebanon. He participated in implementing national activities in partnership with Lebanese national organizations, including the series of demonstrations that broke out in Beirut with the aim of pressuring officials to achieve national and social demands. He was among the student groups that were assigned to guard the area of Beirut Arab University, and he participated in the establishment of the Student Company in 1973, which turned into the Student Battalion, and it was a military battalion with an organizational extension in Lebanese universities. He worked as a political commissioner for the Fatah Military College in Hamouria near Damascus between (1975-1976).
He was influenced by leftist thought, opposed the idea of a phased solution adopted by the PLO in 1974, and also opposed involvement in the Lebanese civil war. He was interested in the resistance in southern Lebanon and resisting the Zionist occupation, and he and his comrades in arms sought to spread revolutionary moral values among the ranks of the fighters, which had a positive effect on the people of the south embracing the resistance fighters.
He was the commander of the joint Lebanese-Palestinian forces in the Bint Jbeil-Maroun al-Ras sector in 1978, and participated in repelling Saad Haddad’s forces in this sector, in confronting the occupation forces’ invasion of southern Lebanon in 1978, in transporting weapons and personnel to the resistance in the West Bank, and in repelling the occupation’s attack on Beaufort Castle in 1981. When he took over the Nabatieh-Beaufort Castle sector, he and his comrades worked to fortify the castle, which contributed to its steadfastness for a long period despite being subjected to continuous shelling by the occupation army.
He became a member of the Supreme Military Council of the Palestinian Revolution, and worked in the leadership of the Yarmouk Battalion, which played a role in confronting the occupation army during the invasion of Lebanon in 1982. He was wounded by occupation bullets before the famous Battle of Shaqif, and was transferred to Beirut to receive treatment there. After the Palestinian Revolution forces left Beirut, he went to Greece to complete his treatment.
Al-Taher returned to continue the resistance work with the student battalion in the Lebanese Bekaa in 1983, which had begun to carry out a series of armed operations targeting the occupation and its supply lines in the Bekaa and the South. He fought in the battle to liberate the mountain, and was besieged in the Hermel region by the Syrian army. He participated in the battles of Tripoli between the Fatah movement and the Islamic Unification movement on one side, and a number of Palestinian factions supported by the Syrian regime on the other side. He left Lebanon after being wounded again, and headed to Algeria, then to France and Tunisia, until he settled in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Al-Taher continued to work with the Fatah movement, and was a member of the Committee to Support the Intifada during the First Palestinian Intifada. He also worked in the Western Sector, a Fatah apparatus specializing in resistance work within the West Bank and Gaza. He was involved in popular initiatives to strengthen the internal front in Jordan, support the Intifada, and reject the American aggression against Iraq during the Second Gulf War (1990-1991), in conjunction with some cultural and national figures such as Walid Saif, Ahmed Nawfal, and others.
Al-Taher was a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council between (1989-2009), then his organizational ties with the movement were severed. He participated in the founding of the National Authority for the Preservation of Palestinian Constants in 2010, based in Damascus, with Munir Shafiq, Muhammad Abu Mizer, Bilal al-Hassan, Nafiz Abu Hasna, Azmi Bishara, Anis al-Qasim, and others. However, the outbreak of the Syrian crisis prevented the completion of the Authority's work. He became a member of the General Secretariat of the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad in 2017, and a member of the Follow-up Committee of the Palestinian National Conference in 2024, which is “a popular movement that aims for dialogue with all Palestinian parties, factions, groups, communities, and unions, and to find peaceful popular means of pressure to push these parties to achieve Palestinian national unity, rebuild the Palestine Liberation Organization, and build a unified leadership.”
Al-Taher worked as the coordinator of the “Memory of Palestine” project of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (based in Doha) between (2016-2025). This project is for researching and documenting the Palestinian cause. He supervised the establishment of an archive containing nearly one million documents, including a large number of personal papers of Palestinians who were involved in public affairs at different stages of the history of the Palestinian cause, issues of Palestinian magazines and newspapers, especially those issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian national and Islamic factions, records of Sharia courts, Arab documents, Zionist and foreign documents, and others. He worked with a specialized team on digitizing the archive and uploading it to the “Memory of Palestine” website, in addition to his work on the Arab Encyclopedia. Al-Taher also participated in establishing the Arab Center’s branch in Amman.
Thanks to this archive and others, the center has published approximately twenty-six books, including a number of important memoirs of figures who participated in the Palestinian national movement.
Al-Taher writes analytical political articles in Arab newspapers, especially Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper, and participates in seminars and academic conferences concerned with the Palestinian issue and its developments. He is hosted on satellite channels to analyze the political and field events related to Palestine and its cause. He has published a number of studies and lengthy opinion articles in Palestinian and Arab magazines and specialized websites, and a number of books have been published for him, including: A Dialogue with Mu’in Al-Taher; The Student Battalion: Reflections on the Experience (2015), Controversial Figures in Arab Thought and Islamic Philosophy: Al-Bistami, Al-Suhrawardi, Al-Tahtawi, Sayyid Qutb (2015), Tobacco and Olives: Tales and Images from a Time of Resistance (2017), The Diaries of Adnan Abu Odeh 1970-1988 (Edited, 2017), The Diaries of Akram Zuaiter: Years of Crisis (1967-1970) (Jointly Edited, 2019), The Diaries of Akram Zuaiter: Hopes for Unity and Pains of Division (1949-1965) (Two Parts, Jointly Edited, 2021), and Difficult Paths: The Palestinian National Movement in the Biography of Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) (1933-1971) (Jointly Edited, 2025).
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