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Samih Rouhi Afif Tabila (December 17, 1950 in Nablus) is an architect from the State of Palestine. He served as Minister of Transport and Communications in Rami Hamdallah's third government.
Education and educational attainment
Tubaila was born on December 17, 1950 in Nablus, in the northern West Bank. He received his school education and graduated from high school in the city. He left for the Arab Republic of Egypt, and obtained a bachelor's degree in architecture from Ain Shams University in 1976.
practical life
After graduating, Tubaila worked in an engineering office, and later developed and held several positions, most notably: Captain of the Palestinian Contractors Syndicate in the West Bank 2006-2008, and President of a sports club in Nablus 2010-2014. Tubaila has worked since 1985 in the Faculty of Engineering at An-Najah National University as an external member of the graduation projects committees. Tubaila was a member of the Palestinian Engineers Association, the Board of Trustees of Hebron University, the Nablus Municipality, the Federation of Arab Contractors and Islamic Countries and later the Nablus Municipality. On July 31, 2015, he was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications in the first cabinet reshuffle of Rami Hamdallah's third government. It ran until April 13, 2019.
In August 2015, the Minister of Local Government, Hussein Al-Araj, decided to appoint a local government committee to conduct the work of the Nablus Municipal Council, headed by Samih Tubaila, until the 2017 Palestinian local elections, in which he won.
In August 2019, he assumed the presidency of the Nablus municipality, succeeding Adly Yaish, in implementation of a prior agreement on the list of candidates for the 2017 elections.
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