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Al-Maliki Riad
Minister of Justice and Information
(Born 1955)
Born in 1955 and holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the American University. He worked at the engineering department at Birzeit University in 1978 and became head of the civil engineering department in the university. He is founder of Panorama, the Palestinian Centre for the Dissemination of Democracy & Community Development. He was awarded the European Peace Prize in 2000 in Copenhagen and the Italian Peace Prize in 2005. Maliki is the coordinator of the Arab Program to Support and Develop Democracy which is an alliance of more than 12 civil society institutions.
Following Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's decision to dissolve the PA unity government in June 2007, he was appointed Minister of Justice and Information in PM Salam Fayyad's government.
(Source: BBC Online)
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