Ishaaq Ahmad Farhan, born in

Ein Kerem ar, عين كارم , settlement_type = Neighborhood of Jerusalem , image_skyline = Ein Karem IMG 0624.JPG , imagesize = 300px , image_caption = View of Ein Karem , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_ ...

Palestine __NOTOC__ Palestine may refer to: * State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia * Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia * Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...

(19346 July 2018) was a Jordanian politician and educator of Palestinian origin, studied chemistry at the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

he then went on to pursue a Ph.D. in the Education of Science from Columbia University and he spoke two languages Arabic and English. Moreover, Ishaaq was a politician, thinker, teacher, and educator, so he was one of the leaders of the

Islamic Action Front The Islamic Action Front ( ar, جبهة العمل الإسلامي ''Jabhat al-'Amal al-Islami'', IAF) is an Islamist political party in Jordan. It is the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. Founded in 1992 with 350 members, E ...

. Also, he was a key figure of the Jordanian advisory council and Ishaaq was a believer in the direction of Wasfi Al-Tal, so he entered the government of Wasfi Al-Tal in 1970 then he broke away from the Islamic movement during while holding the position of Minister of Education and Islamic Endowments in 1973, where he supervised the formulation of educational curricula of the government of Ahmed Al-Lozi. In addition, he was the President of the Jordanian Scientific Association, and he was the president of the University of Jordan. Also, he strongly came back to manage the Islamic movement receiving the secretariat of the

. Moreover, he was a member of the Jordanian House of Senates from 1989-1993 and he became head of the

Zarqa Private University Zarqa University (Arabic: جامعة الزرقاء) is a university in the city of Zarqa, in Jordan's Zarqa Governorate. It was established in 1994, about 6 km to the east of the city center. At the university's first academic semester, th ...

from 1994 to 2007. Furthermore, his meeting on

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's "Bala Hadood" (Without Borders) television program showed the effect of changing curriculum on the identity in mother tongue education, 18 February 2004, and he also showed the Nakba memory and lack of empathy with the

Israeli-Palestinian conflict Israelis ( he, יִשְׂרָאֵלִים‎, translit=Yīśrāʾēlīm; ar, الإسرائيليين, translit=al-ʾIsrāʾīliyyin) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel. The country's populace is composed primarily of Jew ...

on May 16, 2001 .aljazeera.net
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