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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Sufian Abdul Rahman Othman Tayeh was born in Gaza City on August 20, 1971, to a refugee family whose origins trace back to the depopulated village of Beit Daras in the occupied Gaza district. He is married and has two sons and three daughters. He studied primary school in UNRWA schools in Jabalia camp, and secondary school at Al-Faluja Secondary School for Boys in Gaza, from which he obtained his high school diploma in the science stream in 1988. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Garyounis University in Libya in 1994, a master's degree in theoretical physics (electromagnetic theory) from the Islamic University of Gaza in 2000, and a doctorate in theoretical physics (optoelectronics) from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 2007.
He has worked as a lecturer in the physics department at the Islamic University since 1994, and has held more than one position at the same university. He was the Head of the Physics Department between (2008-2011), the Deputy Dean of Admissions and Registration between (2011-2013), the Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs between (2013-2015), the Dean of Admissions and Registration between (2015-2019), the Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs between (2019-2020), and he was awarded the title of Professor in 2018. He worked as a visiting professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2021. He has been the President of the Islamic University of Gaza since August 2023.
Tayeh has received a number of scientific and honorary awards, including: the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers in 2012, the Best Research Award at the Islamic University in 2017, the Islamic Bank of Palestine Award for Scientific Research at the level of Palestine in 2019, and he was ranked among the top 2% of researchers worldwide by the global publishing house Elsevier in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Stanford University (United States) in 2021.
He joined a research team from Indian universities in 2014, published 150 research papers in scientific journals, and contributed to two books on optoelectronics (2021), the first published by Taylor and Francis and the second by Elsevier .
He worked as an editor for a number of international scientific journals and reports, including: Al-Mukhtar Journal of Science (Libya), the American Journal of Optics and Photonics (Scientific Publishing Group), SCIREA Journal of Physics (Scientific Research Association), and Advanced Physics Research Reports (American Publishing House).
He participated in numerous scientific and preparatory committees for several international conferences, most notably: the Third International Conference on Science and Development (Islamic University, Gaza, 2009), the Fourth International Conference on Science and Development (Islamic University, Gaza, 2010), the Fifth International Conference on Science and Development (Islamic University, Gaza, 2013), the Third International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection in Sustainable Development, ICEEP III (Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, 2013), the Seventh International Scientific Conference on Applied Sciences and Engineering (UAE, 2016), the Eighth International Scientific Conference on Applied Sciences and Engineering (Malaysia, 2016), the Ninth International Scientific Conference on Applied Sciences and Engineering (Turkey, 2016), the Tenth International Scientific Conference on Applied Sciences and Engineering (Thailand, 2016), the Eleventh International Scientific Conference on Applied Sciences and Engineering (Malaysia, 2016), the Fourth International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (Singapore, 2019), and the Second International Conference on Photonics and Optoelectronics (Singapore, 2020), the 4th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation (AMMS2021) (China, 2021), and the 5th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation (AMMS2022) (China, 2022).
Tayeh believes that everyone should work to elevate the Palestinian cause and present Palestine to the world in the true way that expresses the aspirations and authenticity of the Palestinian people. He stands at an equal distance from all parties on the Palestinian scene. He believes that the Oslo Accords had positive aspects, represented in the return of a number of Palestinian refugee and displaced families to Palestine, the revival of the Palestinian cause, and enabling Palestinians to establish a self-governing authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He also believes that it had negative aspects, such as security coordination with the occupation, the linking of the fate of Palestinians to the control of the Israeli occupation, and the violation and violation of Palestinian rights by the occupiers.
He believes that all forms of resistance sanctioned by international laws and conventions are the solution to end the occupation and restore the stolen Palestinian rights. He supports any interim solution that guarantees the rights of the Palestinians, and believes that in the end the Palestinians must regain all of the historical land of Palestine, and that there is no solution to the refugee issue and ending their suffering, except their return to the homes from which they were displaced.
Tayeh suffered under the occupation; he was arrested while traveling through the Rafah crossing to participate in a scientific conference in Pakistan in 2005, and spent two months in prison. His house was also destroyed during the aggression against the Gaza Strip in 2014. He was martyred in an Israeli bombing of his house with his family members on December 2, 2023, during the Al-Aqsa Flood War.
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