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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Many Palestinians were able to obtain high academic degrees that qualified them to enter high-ranking educational positions in multiple institutions, through which they contributed to consolidating the Palestinian national identity rooted in confronting the falsehood of Zionist propaganda and the storms of Judaization of the Palestinian time and place, along with carrying the quiver of literature and criticism so that the productions of the Palestinian people continue. The evidence is that the Palestinian national identity is not as dangerous as the enemies of Palestinian rights are rumored to be and wish. Here we recall the biography of Muhammad Abdel Qader Tarkhan as an icon in literary criticism and the educational field at the same time.
His career with literary criticism
Muhammad Tarkhan is a Palestinian writer, critic, and educator, born in 1952 in Balata Camp in the city of Nablus. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Kuwait University in 1975, in addition to a master’s degree in English language and education from Winona University in the state of Minnesota in the United States of America in 1982. He also obtained a doctorate in educational administration from Amman Educational University. for postgraduate studies during the year 2004.
Among his products in the field of literary criticism is the publication of a number of books, including: “The Space of Transcendence... Readings in the Poetic and Novel Creativity of Ibrahim Nasrallah,” Dar Al-Shorouk, Amman 2012. “Aesthetics of Symbol and Imagination: Critical Papers in Creative Texts,” Dar Al-Shorouk, Amman 2012, “Ghassan Kanafani: The Roots of Genius and Its Creative Manifestations,” Arab House of Sciences, Beirut during 2015.
His productions did not stop at the aforementioned limit, but he carried out a translation process, as he translated from English: “Preparing for the Twenty-First Century” by Paul Kennedy (in collaboration with Ghazi Masoud), Dar Al-Shorouk, Amman during the year 1993, “The Rise of Progress: The End of Economic Progress and the Beginning of the Development of Human Characteristics.” “(Together with Zuhair Sandooqa) published by Dar Al-Shorouk, Amman in 1995. “The Passion for Tulips”, Kalima Translation Project, Abu Dhabi in 2012.
At the time when Dr. Muhammad Abd al-Qadir Tarkhan excelled in the field of Palestinian literary criticism, he played a remarkable role. In the educational field as well.
Fields of education
In addition to his publications in the field of literary criticism, Muhammad Tarkhan experimented with education. He worked as a teacher in Kuwait, Jordan, and UNRWA, then worked as an educational supervisor there, and was appointed director of the training materials production unit at the General Headquarters of UNRWA in the Jordanian capital, Amman, (UNRWA); He worked as head of school education at the General Headquarters in Amman (UNRWA); He worked as head of the UNRWA Education Program in Jordan and published a book on educational administration entitled “Arab Educational Leadership and the Challenges of Education in the Age of Globalization: Jordan as a Model,” Dar Al-Shorouk, Amman 2013.
He has written many training materials in the field of education quality, problem solving, learning organizations, accountability, etc.
He led many educational training seminars in the five areas of UNRWA operations, which include Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He also worked as an economic translator at the Central Bank of Kuwait.
He worked as an English-language news editor at the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), and translated the book “The 25-Year Journey of the Modern Kuwaiti Renaissance” from Arabic to English. He also worked as a teacher in Kuwait, Jordan, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), whose records include more than six Millions of Palestinian refugees are currently located within its areas of operation, providing them with available services. When the Agency began its work in 1950, it was working to respond to the needs of approximately 750,000 Palestinian refugees.
One third of the Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA, or more than one million four hundred thousand refugees, live in 58 recognized refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including the eastern part of Jerusalem occupied on June 5, 1967. UNRWA administers ( 702) Primary and middle schools in its five fields of operation, including eight secondary schools in Lebanon, providing free basic education to approximately five hundred thousand Palestinian refugee children.
In literature, its criticism and translation, in the news and its transmission, in education and its curricula, and in humanitarian work, Dr. Muhammad Abdel Qader Tarkhan drew his self-identity as a man who thought first, and as a Palestinian who translated his identity not only in the distinguished scientific and creative work that he produced, but also in all the humanitarian services he provided in service of the cause. Palestinian general.
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