Abdallah Frangi
Abdallah Frangi ( Arabic عبد الله الأفرنجي, DMG ʿAbd Allāh al-Afranǧī ; Born November 15, 1943 in Beersheba ) is a Palestinian diplomat and politician .
Life
Frangi was born in Beersheba in 1943 as the son of a Bedouin landowner. His family fled to Gaza in 1948 . After the invasion of the Israeli forces during the Suez Crisis in 1956, the family fled to Cairo .
Frangi studied medicine and politics in Frankfurt am Main and Algeria from 1963 to 1972 . In June 1967 he received military training in Algeria. He was then sent to the Israeli occupied territories by Fatah and arrested by the Israeli forces on August 5th. After four months' imprisonment near Hebron , he returned to Frankfurt and continued his studies.
Frangi was co-founder and from 1968 to 1970 chairman of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in Europe, which was banned in the course of the Munich massacre . As a member of this organization and as a representative of the PLO at the League of Arab States in Bonn (1970–1982), Frangi himself was called by one of the Munich terrorists, but did not answer.
Frangi has been a member of Fatah since 1960, and he was elected to the Revolutionary Council in 1978. From 1974 he was the official representative of the PLO in Germany, from 1993 to 2005 as General Delegate of the Palestinian Territories . In this function, through intensive relationships with German politicians, including Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski , Jürgen Möllemann and Joschka Fischer , he brought the interests of the Palestinian people to the German political stage.
From 2007 to 2009 he was Fatah's foreign policy spokesman. He has been the personal advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas in the Gaza Strip since 2009 and sworn governor of Gaza since July 2014 .
He is married to a German. The couple have two children, a daughter and a son who died in Berlin in 2011.
Honor
- 2013: Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize of the City of Osnabrück together with the Israeli diplomat Avi Primor .
Publications
- PLO and Palestine - Past and Present. RG Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-88323-350-1
- The envoy: My life for Palestine. Behind the scenes of Middle East politics. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-19354-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Abdallah Frangi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Abdallah Frangi's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Martina Doering: Abdallah Frangi: Distance to Hamas, in: Berliner Zeitung of July 22, 2014, accessed on March 7, 2017
- ↑ "The word, terror? is disgusting ” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1972, p. 102 ( Online - Oct. 16, 1972 ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frangi, Abdallah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Al-Frangi, Abdallah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palestinian diplomat and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Be'er Scheva , Mandate Palestine |