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Fathallah Hassan Muhammad Al-Salwadi was born in Haifa in the occupied interior in 1923. He is married and has four sons and four daughters. He studied the primary stage at Al-Saba'i and Al-Irshad Al-Islami schools in Haifa, and the Silwad Al-Amiriya School. He obtained the certificate of eligibility from Al-Azhar in Egypt in 1938, then the certificate of Al-Alamiyya from the same university in 1939, and then the higher certificate from the College of Arabic Language at the same university in 1945.
He worked as a teacher at Ramla Secondary School between (1945-1947), then at Silwad School, then at Al-Rashidiya and Al-Umariya Schools in Jerusalem, then at Ramallah Secondary School for three years, then at Silwad Secondary School where he remained from 1960 until his retirement in 1982. He wrote poetry, stories, and reflections for Jordanian radio between (1955-1967), and he worked as a preacher in the mosques of Ramallah and Al-Bireh between (1966-2000), and as a preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque between (1988-2000). He also held the position of Mufti in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate between (1995-2000).
He joined the Muslim Brotherhood while at Al-Azhar, and participated in its advocacy and intellectual activities and its events supporting Palestine. He frequented the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Helmiya, listened to the lessons of its leader, Imam Hassan al-Banna, and got to know the group’s cadres. He also frequented the headquarters of the Muslim Youth Association in Cairo, and the Sayyidna al-Hussein Mosque and the Ataba Mosque. However, he left the group immediately upon his return to Palestine, and he maintained good relations with its cadres as well as the cadres of the Liberation Party.
He practiced social reform and was a prominent figure in the West Bank.
Al-Salwadi wrote poetry and published his first poem in an Egyptian newspaper in 1937. His poems then appeared in Egyptian magazines and newspapers such as: Al-Siyasa Al-Usbu’iya, Al-Amsar, Al-Ahram, Al-Masri, and Minbar Al-Sharq newspaper, in addition to Palestinian newspapers such as: Al-Difaa, Falastin, Al-Jihad, Al-Fajr, and Al-Quds. He published two collections of poetry: Al-Khawatir (1990) and Khawatir fi Dhilal Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa (1999). He began writing newspaper articles while he was in Egypt, then he started writing in Palestinian newspapers, where he addressed religious, political, intellectual, social and economic issues in his articles. Specific corners were allocated to him on their pages, such as the "Echo of Thoughts" corner in Al-Quds newspaper, which he wrote in the seventies of the twentieth century. He had literary and intellectual records with writers of his time such as Ishaq Musa al-Husseini and Arif al-Arif, in addition to his membership in the editorial board of Palestinian religious magazines such as Huda al-Islam and Al-Isra. He has a book entitled "Men I Met" (2015), and he also has fifty-one manuscript books on the topics of literature, thought and religion.
He died in the town of Silwad on June 4, 2000.
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