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Abdul Rahman Ahmed Abbad was born on May 5, 1945 in the depopulated village of Zakaria, Hebron district. He completed his primary education at a UNRWA school in Dheisheh refugee camp, and his secondary education in schools in Bethlehem and Hebron. He earned a diploma from the UNRWA Teachers' Training Institute – Siblin Training Centre in Lebanon, a bachelor's degree in Arabic Language and Literature from Beirut Arab University in 1977, a master's degree in the same field from Saint Joseph University in Lebanon in 1982, and a doctorate in the same field from the same university in 1990. He worked as an Arabic language teacher in several schools between 1966 and 1982, then as a lecturer at Hebron University between 1982 and 1990, at Al-Quds Open University/Bethlehem Branch between 1990 and 1992, at Al-Quds University in the Graduate Studies Department between 1996 and 1999, and at the University of Leeds/Jerusalem Branch between 1998 and 2002. He also served as Head of the Department of Arabic Language and Islamic Culture at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Ramallah. Professorship.
Abbad assumed the general secretariat of the Association of Muslim Scholars and Preachers in Palestine, and was a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, a member of the Supreme Islamic Authority in Jerusalem, a member of the Supreme Sufi Islamic Council in Palestine, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Meeting Center for Religious and Heritage Studies in the Holy Land, a member of the Executive Committee of the Union of Arab Historians, and a member of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors.
Abbad participated in numerous academic and dialogue conferences in Palestine and abroad, and presented several programs on Palestinian satellite channels. He served as editor-in-chief of Al-Israa magazine, wrote for Huda Al-Islam magazine, published articles in several Arab magazines and newspapers, contributed to the development of the ninth-grade Arabic language curriculum in Palestine, and participated in reviewing several Islamic education textbooks. He published thirty-nine books and forty research papers addressing literary, intellectual, and political issues, focusing on Jerusalem's history and current situation. His works have been translated into English, French, Russian, Czech, Turkish, Hebrew, and Spanish. His publications include: *Reuniting the Families* (short story collection, 1975), *The Fools and the Useful* (short story collection, 1981), *We Die and Do Not Leave* (short story collection, 1982), *The Republic of the Dogs* (plays, 1984), *Contemporary Arabic Poetry Between Experimentation and Renewal* (1984), *The Art of Writing and Expression* (1985), *My Journey Across the Bridges* (short stories, 1986), *The Memory of Oranges* (children's story collection, 1988), *The Savages* (novel, 1988), *The Literary Movement in Nazareth* (1990), *The Memory of Olives* (short stories, 1990), *The Memory of Palms* (short story collection, 1991), and *Islamic Issues*. Contemporary (1995), Nonviolence in Islam (1996), The Memory of Birds (short story collection, 1996), Human Rights in Islam (1996), The Future of Arab Jerusalem (1999), The Happy Family (short story collection, 2000), Almond Dreams (short story collection, 2003), The Memory of Place (short story collection, 2005), Our Al-Aqsa, Not Their Temple (2009), Umm Ahmad, Lover of Palestine (2010), Democracy and Shura in Islam, Social Peace in Islam, and Jerusalem in Islamic Belief.
Abbad received a number of honorary awards, including: the First Palestine Prize for Literature (from Al-Bayader Press Foundation) (1989), the Palestine Medal for Honoring Scientists (from President Yasser Arafat, 1997), the Jerusalem Medal in Beirut (2004), the Friendship Medal (from Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Church), and the State Medal for Culture, Science and Arts (from President Mahmoud Abbas, 2015).
He died on May 27, 2015, and was buried in the Dheisheh Palestinian refugee camp.
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