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Personal Info

• Country of residence: Palestine

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1960

• Age: 64

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Bassam Ahmed Omar Al-Salhi (1960-) is a Palestinian politician , elected Secretary-General of the Palestinian People's Party in 2008 and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council on the Alternative List in the 2006 elections, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization . 

His biography

Bassam Al-Salhi was born in the Amari refugee camp in the city of Ramallah to a family that originated from the occupied city of Lod, from which they were displaced as a result of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948. He studied primary school in the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) . He joined Birzeit University near Ramallah in 1978, and continued his studies there until he obtained a master's degree in international studies in 1997. During his studies at the university, he was elected president of the Student Union Council for two years (1979-1981). During this period, he led the student movement's struggle against the Camp David Accords , and because of that, he was arrested in Israeli prisons several times and placed under house arrest . He was also active in the first Palestinian Intifada and was a member of the Unified National Leadership . He was arrested again in 1990 for 3 years. 

Positions held

Al-Salehi held many positions, including: 

Membership of the National Steering Committee .
Member of the Palestinian National Council .
Member of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization .
Member of the Follow-up Committee on the Racist Wall File at the Hague Court and was part of the Palestinian delegation to attend the court sessions.
Member of the Follow-up Team dedicated to mobilizing international support for the Palestinian people.
He assumed the position of Minister of Culture in the Palestinian government formed in March 2007.

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He has many intellectual and political books and studies. 

The development of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Gaza from 1967 to 1991.
The Unified Leadership, Islamic Organizations, and the PLO in the 1987 Intifada.
The PLO...the last bastion and implementer of change, 2016.
Ending the division and changing the reality it left behind, 2016.

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