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'''Atef Ibrahim Mohammad Adwan''' ({{lang-ar|عاطف ابراهيم محمد عدوان}}), also spelled '''Odwan''', '''Udwan''' or '''Edwan''' ([[Kunya (Arabic)|nom de Guerre]] Abu Sharif), is the Minister of Refugees in the [[Palestinian Authority]], having been named to this position following the [[Hamas]] victory in the [[2006 Palestinian legislative election]], when he was elected from the [[Northern Gaza District]].<br />
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Adwan was born in 1952 in the town of [[Beit Hanoun]], in the far north of the [[Gaza Strip]], where he still resides, to a well-educated family. He earned a higher diploma in political science in [[Lebanon]], probably in the early 1970s, a bachelor's degree in political science from the [[College of Economics and Political Sciences in Cairo]] in 1978, followed by a graduate diploma from the Center for Arab Research and Studies at the [[Beirut Arab University]], and master’s and a PhD from British universities between 1983 and 1987. He became an associate professor in 1996 and a professor in political science in 2001 at the [[Islamic University of Gaza]] in [[Gaza City]]. In addition to his political posts, he is acting chairman of the Islamic Society in Beit Hanoun, preaches weekly at the Omar Bin Abed Al-Aziz mosque, and has published numerous books and research papers on political issues such as the relationships between the Jews and the Muslims in the early stages of Islam.<br />
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Adwan has been arrested several times by the Israeli government for alleged terrorist activities and the [[PLO]]-led Palestinian Authority for political activism through the years. In 1992 he was deported to [[Marj Al-Zuhour]] in Southern Lebanon where he wrote a book entitled "Marj Al-Zuhour Diary."<br />
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In almost every recent Israeli invasion of Beit Hanoun, Atef's house was subject to search by Israeli Defence Army.<br />
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He was the Minister of State for Refugee affairs in [[Palestinian Authority Government of March 2006]].<ref name="pa_gov_2006">[https://web.archive.org/web/20091004182619/http://www.jmcc.org/politics/pna/pagovmar06.htm ''The PA Ministerial Cabinet List March 2006 - March 2007'']. JMCC. Archived on 4 October 2009</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External sources==<br />
* [http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/PLCHandbook.pdf Washington Institute PLC Handbook]<br />
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