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Talal Abdul Jabbar Ismail Abu Afifa was born in Jerusalem in 1953. He studied primary school in Jerusalem schools, and secondary school in Al-Hashemite School in Al-Bireh. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Beirut Arab University in 1978, and obtained a law degree from the Jordanian Bar Association in 1991. He worked as an employee in the Ministry of Justice in the Emirates between 1978 and 1979, as a journalist in Al-Fajr Al-Maqdisiyya newspaper between 1980 and 1993, as a general manager in the Ministry of Youth and Sports between 1994 and 1996, and as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Youth from 1996 until he retired in 2005.
He joined the Fatah movement in 1972, and was active in planning and implementing its national activities. He is the founder of the General Union of Youth Committees for Social Work in the Occupied Territories and its president between (1981-1985), the official of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem between (1985-1988), a member of the Supreme Movement Committee of the Fatah movement in the West Bank between (1991-1996), a member of the Mobilization and Organization Office between (1996-2009), and a member of the Fatah movement court between (2010-2016). He ran in the legislative elections in 2006, but did not win, and was expelled from the movement because he ran for the elections independently, and the expulsion decision was later transformed into a fifteen-month freeze.
Abu Afifa was among those who wrote in support of the settlement project while he was in Shatta prison, where he wrote an article in 1989 that was published in Al-Fajr newspaper, and he participated in the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991 as part of the advisory committees supporting the Palestinian negotiating delegation.
Abu Afifa has been a member of the Jordanian Bar Association since 1982, a member of the Palestinian Bar Association since 2006, a member of the General Secretariat of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors, and a member of the Palestinian Civilian Retirees Authority.
He participated in dozens of youth and cultural conferences in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and abroad, and was active on the cultural and social levels; he was the head of the Palestinian Al-Farafeer Theater Troupe between (1974-1986), the head of the Social Youth Center in Shuafat Camp for several sessions, and the head of the Jerusalem Intellectuals Forum, a cultural institution founded in 2003. He also worked as a cultural advisor to a number of youth frameworks and institutions in the city of Jerusalem, including: the Sports Federations Gathering in Jerusalem - Our Jerusalem, the Arab Sports Institute, and the Jerusalem Students Union.
He published a number of studies and research, and published a number of books, including: Palestinian Diplomacy (1984), Palestinian Strategy (1986), Diplomacy and Strategy in Palestinian Politics Over a Century (1998), Youth Issues: Reality, Problems, and Needs (2004), A Brief Introduction to the Palestinian Criminal Procedure Code (2011), Explanation of the Penal Code - General Section (2012), Principles of Criminology and Punishment (2014), Explanation of Crimes Against Human Beings (2016), Explanation of Crimes Against Property (2016), Crimes Against the Public Interest (2017), Crimes Against State Security (2019), Reasons for the Deviation of Children and Youth towards Crime (2020), Addiction to Drugs, Stimulants, Alcohol, and Smoking (2021), and Memories of the Past: Biography and Career (2022). He published a number of plays, including: Uncle Dhiab’s Restaurant (1975), The Deaf (1977), Mukhtar al-Mukhtar (1983), June 1930 (1985), and They Were Three Men (2010).
Abu Afifa suffered in his life; the occupation arrested him for the first time in 1980, then in 1983, then between the years (1988-1990), and the occupation prevented him from entering the West Bank and Gaza between the years (1985-1986), and prevented him from traveling between the years (1978-1991).
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