Palestinian politician (1948–2021)
Abd al-Sattar Tawfiq Qasim al-Khader (Arabic: عبد الستار توفيق قاسم الخضر خليلية; 21 September 1948 – 1 February 2021) was a Palestinian writer, thinker, political analyst, and academic. He was born in the town of Deir al-Ghusun in Tulkarm Governorate and died in Nablus. Qasim was a professor of political science and Palestinian studies at An-Najah National University in Nablus. He is known for his positions rejecting the settlement with Israel and critical of the Palestinian Self-Government Authority.
Life
He received a bachelor's degree in political science from The American University in Cairo, then a master's degree in political science from the American Kansas State University, then a master's degree in economics from the University of Missouri, USA, then a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Missouri also in 1977.[citation needed]
Qasim worked at the University of Jordan with the rank of assistant professor in 1978, and his services were terminated after a year and a half in 1979. He worked as a professor of political science at An-Najah National University in Nablus since 1980, and he worked as a part-time professor at each university,[1] Birzeit University and Al-Quds University. He retired from teaching from An-Najah National University in 2013.
Awards
In 1984, he won the Abdul Hameed Shoman Prize in the field of political science.[citation needed]
Writings
Books and research
He has published 25 books, and has written about 130 scientific papers and thousands of articles. Of which:[2]
- Traditional political philosophy
- Fall of the King of Kings (On the Iranian Revolution)
- The martyr Ezz El-Din Al-Qassam
- The Golan Heights
- The detention experiment
- Days in the Naqab detention camp
- Individual and group freedom in Islam
- Women in Islamic Thought
- Prophet Abraham and the covenant with the children of Israel
- The road to defeat
- The summary on the Palestinian issue.
- The graves of Arab intellectuals[citation needed]
He has written research papers on various topics in politics, such as the Americanization of the Arabs, the Palestinian resistance, Islamic political thought and globalization.[3]
Death
He died on 1 February 2021, at An-Najah National University Hospital in Nablus, after being infected with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Palestine.[4]
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