Abd al-Sattar Tawfiq Qasim al-Khader (; 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 Deir al-Ghusun () is a Palestinian people, Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate, located eight kilometers northeast of the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, Palestine. The town is near the Green Line (Israel), Green Line (border be ...

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and died in

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. Qasim was a professor of political science and Palestinian studies at

An-Najah National University An-Najah National University () is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties. It is the largest university in the ...

in Nablus. He is known for his positions rejecting the settlement with Israel and critical of the

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Self-Government Authority.

Life

He received a bachelor's degree in political science from

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, then a master's degree in political science from the American

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, then a master's degree in economics from the

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, USA, then a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Missouri also in 1977. Qasim worked at the

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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

in Nablus since 1980, and he worked as a part-time professor at each university,

Birzeit University Birzeit University () is a public university in the West Bank, Palestine, registered by the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs as a charitable organization. It is accredited by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Mini ...

and

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. 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.

Writings

Books and research

He has published 25 books, and has written about 130 scientific papers and thousands of articles. Of which: # 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 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.

Death

He died on 1 February 2021, at An-Najah National University Hospital in

, after being infected with

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during the

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References

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