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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Talal Abdul Jabbar Ismail Abu Afifa is a Palestinian figure born in the city of Jerusalem in 1953. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Beirut Arab University in 1978, and obtained a law license from the Jordanian Bar Association in 1991.
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He studied primary school in the schools of Jerusalem, and secondary school in the Hashemite School in the city of Al-Bireh .
He worked as an employee in the Ministry of Justice in the UAE between the years (1978-1979).
He worked as a journalist for Al-Fajr newspaper in Jerusalem between the years (1980-1993).
He worked as a general manager at the Ministry of Youth and Sports between 1994 and 1996.
Legal advisor to the Ministry of Youth from 1996 until his retirement in 2005.
Belonging
Talal Abu Afifa joined the Fatah movement in 1972, and was active in planning and implementing its national activities.
He founded the General Union of Youth Committees for Social Work in the Occupied Territories and was its president between 1981 and 1985. He was responsible for the Fatah movement in Jerusalem between 1985 and 1988.
Member of the Supreme Movement Committee of the Fatah Movement in the West Bank between the years (1991-1996).
Member of the Mobilization and Organization Office between (1996-2009).
Member of the Fatah Movement's Movement Court between (2010-2016). He ran in the 2006 legislative elections, but did not win.
He was expelled from Fatah.
He was expelled from the movement for running for election independently, and the expulsion decision was later turned into a fifteen-month freeze.
Among those who wrote in support of the settlement project while he was in Shatta prison , where he wrote an article in 1989 that was published in Al-Fajr newspaper.
He participated in the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991 as part of the advisory committees supporting the Palestinian negotiating delegation.
Bar Association Membership
Abu Afifa has been a member of the Jordanian Bar Association since 1982.
Member of the Palestinian Bar Association since 2006. Member of the General Secretariat of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors, and member of the Palestinian Civilian Retirees Authority.
Activity
He participated in dozens of youth and cultural conferences in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and abroad.
Active on the cultural and social levels.
He was the head of the Palestinian Al-Farafeer Theatre Troupe between 1974 and 1986.
Head of the Social Youth Center in Shuafat Camp for several sessions.
President of the Jerusalem Intellectuals Forum, a cultural institution founded in 2003.
He worked as a cultural advisor to a number of youth organizations and institutions in the city of Jerusalem, including: the Sports Federations Gathering in Jerusalem - Our Jerusalem, the Arab Sports Institute, and the Union of Jerusalem Students.
Studies and research
He published a number of books and publications, including:
Palestinian Diplomacy (1984).
The Palestinian Strategy (1986).
Diplomacy and Strategy in Palestinian Politics Over a Century (1998).
Youth Issues.. Reality, Problems, Needs (2004).
A Brief Introduction to the Palestinian Criminal Procedure Code (2011).
Explanation of the Penal Code - General Section (2012).
Fundamentals of Criminology and Punishment (2014).
Explanation of crimes against humanity (2016).
Explanation of crimes against property (2016).
Explanation of crimes against the public interest (2017), Explanation of crimes against state security (2019), and Reasons for the deviation of children and youth towards crime (2020).
Arrest
Abu Afifa suffered from the policy of arrest in his life, as the occupation arrested him for the first time in 1980, then in 1983, then between the years (1988-1990), and the occupation prevented him from entering the West Bank and Gaza between the years (1985-1986), and prevented him from traveling between the years (1978-1991).
His view of reform
Stop what he described as the policy of "insults, accusations and treason" through the media, especially satellite channels.
He called on Fatah leaders to immediately stop talking about dividing the movement into “inside and outside,” “loyalists and disloyalists,” and “a revolutionary nationalist current” and “a traitorous, collaborating current.”
The reason for the collapse of Fatah in Gaza is due to factors, the first of which is Fatah’s “cliques, division, and failure to learn lessons from the movement’s failure in the second legislative elections and the procrastination in holding the sixth conference in ten years,” and the second is Israeli.
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