Aziz Duwaik
Politician
1950 –
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Who is Aziz Duwaik?
Aziz Duwaik has been the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council since his election to that post on 18 January 2006. He was imprisoned in Israel on 6 August 2006 on charges of being a member of Hamas, but he was released on 22 June 2009. Some Palestinians consider Duwaik, as speaker of the PLC, to be the acting President of the Palestinian National Authority, since the elected term of Mahmoud Abbas officially expired on 9 January 2009.
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- Born
- 1950
- Religion
- Islam
- Sunni Islam
- Profession
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania
- An-Najah National University
- Lived in
- Nablus
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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