Umar Abd ar-Razzaq

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Umar Abd ar-Razzaq ( Arabic عمر عبد الرزاق, DMG ʿUmar ʿAbd ar-Razzāq ; also: Omar Abd al-Razaq , Abed Rayek ; * 1958 in Salfit ) is a Palestinian economist and politician ( Hamas ). In 2006 he was briefly Minister of Finance for the Palestinian Authority .

Life

Umar Abd ar-Razzaq comes from a farming family. He attended high school in Salfit and received his PhD from the University of Iowa in the United States in 1986 . He then worked as a professor of economics at the University of Nablus before he was appointed Minister of Finance of the Palestinian Authority on March 29, 2006. On June 29, 2006, Umar Abd ar-Razzaq was arrested by Israel along with 63 other Hamas members as part of " Operation Summer Rain " and released in 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamas Leaves Abbas in a Bind , Time. March 20, 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Abbas Raises No Objection to HAMAS Cabinet List . Turkish Weekly. March 20, 2006. Archived from the original on September 19, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 22, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.turkishweekly.net
  3. ^ Greg Myre: Israelis arrest Hamas politicians . In: The New York Times , June 29, 2006. Retrieved November 18, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Israel frees another Hamas representative . In: The Jerusalem Post , August 6, 2008. Retrieved November 18, 2012. 
personal data
SURNAME Umar Abd ar-Razzaq
ALTERNATIVE NAMES عمر عبد الرزاق (Arabic); Razzāq, ʿUmar ʿAbd ar-; Razaq, Omar Abd al-; Rayek, Abed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian economist and politician (Hamas)
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Salfit