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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Marwan Rasim Kamal Ismail (June 27, 1933) was a Palestinian-Jordanian politician and academic from the Palestinian city of Tulkarm. He held the position of the former Jordanian Minister of Agriculture, and he is a former member of the Jordanian Senate.
His upbringing and education
Marwan Rasim Kamal Ismail grew up in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank. He received his primary, preparatory and secondary education in the city’s schools, and finished high school in the city’s well-established Fadhiliya School. Although Marwan Kamal grew up throughout his life in the city of Tulkarm, the place of his birth was the town of Anabta, adjacent to the city, as his family had moved to permanent residence in the city of Tulkarm when he was an infant at the age of forty days.
Marwan Kamal studied at the American University in Beirut for two years, then worked as a secondary school teacher in Bahrain for a year, after which he returned to Tulkarm, then left for the United States of America, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Roosevelt University in 1955, and a master's degree in chemistry. in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota in 1969.
his personal life
His father is Rasem Kamal, who was a member of the municipal councils of Tulkarm from 1959 until April 26, 1974. Marwan Kamal married in 1963 and has two sons and two daughters.
his most prominent positions
Professor of Chemistry and then Dean of several colleges at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, during the period from 1967 to 1977.
Professor of Chemistry and then Dean of the College of Science and College of Agriculture at the University of Jordan, during the period from 1977 to 1984.
The first president of the University of Bahrain, from 1987 to 1991, as assigned by the Emir of Bahrain.
Jordanian Minister of Agriculture, in 1993, in the first government of Abd al-Salam al-Majali.
President of Yarmouk University of Jordan, from 1994 to 1998.
Elected Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities, from 1998 to 2005.
President-elect of the Association of Arab European Universities, from 2002 to 2014.
President of Philadelphia University of Jordan, from 2005 to April 30, 2013, and from July 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015.
Member of the twenty-second Jordanian Senate, from November 29, 2007 to December 17, 2009.
Member of the Jordanian National Assembly, from November 29, 2007 to December 17, 2009.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hashemite University in Jordan.
Achievements and Awards
decorations
The Jordanian Kawkab Medal of the First Class.
Knight of the French Legion of Honor.
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