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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Fadl Mustafa al-Naqib was born in the al-Jami' al-Ahmar neighborhood of Safed in 1940. He completed his primary and secondary education in Damascus schools, obtaining his high school diploma in the sciences in 1959. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from universities in the United States in 1967, and his doctorate from universities in Canada.
He worked as a professor of mathematical economics at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and as a professor of political science at the same university. He was also a founding researcher at the Palestinian Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) in Palestine, and a consultant to several United Nations organizations, including the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
In his early youth, he became acquainted with George Habash, Hani al-Hindi, Ghassan Kanafani, and others. He and his comrades began distributing the “Revenge” bulletin in Damascus, which was published by the “Committee for Resisting Peace with Israel.” He joined the Arab Nationalist Movement and, with his friends, formed an association called the “League of Literature and Life.” He became involved in Arab student activism at American universities in the 1960s.
He published numerous research papers and studies in specialized journals in the United States, Canada, and Europe in the field of mathematical economics, and wrote on the political economy related to the issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict. His studies focused on critiquing the Oslo Accords and the Paris Economic Protocol.
His Arabic publications include: *This Is How Stories Begin, This Is How They End: Personal Impressions of the Lives of Ghassan Kanafani and Amer al-Kubaisi* (1983), *The Israeli Economy Within the Framework of the Zionist Project* (1995), *The Palestinian Economy in the West Bank and Gaza: The Problem of the Transitional Phase and the Politics of the Future* (1997), *The Israeli Economy on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century* (2001), *A Theoretical Introduction:
Towards Formulating a Palestinian Development Vision* (2003), *Modernity and the Intellectuals of the New Arab Dependency* (2007), *The Time of the Wise Man (The Days of George Habash)* (2008), *Humanism in the Thought of Abdel Wahab El-Messiri* (2008), *Ghassan Kanafani: The Emotion of Resistance* (2013), and *The Political Economy of the High-Tech Industry in Israel* (co-authored, 2015).
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