Abdel-Rahim Ahmed (1944–1991) was a Palestinian politician who was one of the founders of the

Arab Liberation Front Arab Liberation Front (ALF; ''Jabhet Al-Tahrir Al-'Arabiyah'') is a minor Palestinian political party, previously controlled by the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, which it founded in 1969 as its Palestinian military wing. It was based out of Iraq and tr ...

(ALF). He served as a member of the

Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ) is a Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinians, Palestinian people in both the occupied Pale ...

's (PLO) executive committee.

Biography

Ahmed was born in a village, Haditha, Mandatory Palestine, in 1944. His family left the village and settled in Jordan after the

Nakba The Nakba () is the ethnic cleansing; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; of Palestinian Arabs through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their s ...

in 1948. He was a graduate of

Damascus University Damascus University () is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus, with campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 as the Syrian University () through the merger of the Faculty of Medicine of Dama ...

where he obtained a degree in agriculture. Ahmed joined the military struggle against Israel when he was a teenager. He was a cofounder of the Baghdad-based ALF which was established in April 1969 and became part of the PLO in July that year. He was named as the general secretary of the ALF in 1975 which he held until his death in 1991. After his term the ALF experienced a significant division between pro-Iraqi and pro-

Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, Presid ...

groups. He was elected to the executive committee of the PLO. Ahmed was married and had four children, three daughters and a son. Ahmed died of brain and lung cancer at his home in Amman, Jordan, at age 47 on 30 June 1991. He was buried in Amman.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmed Abdel Rahim 20th-century Palestinian politicians 1944 births 1991 deaths Arab people in Mandatory Palestine Members of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Palestinian emigrants to Jordan Damascus University alumni Deaths from cancer in Jordan Deaths from brain tumor Deaths from lung cancer