Azzam al-Ahmad

{{Short description|Palestinian politician (born 1947)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Azzam al-Ahmad

| image = Azzam al-Ahmad.jpg

| caption = Al-Ahmad in 2013

| office = Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology

| term_start = 12 November 2003

| term_end = 24 February 2005

| president = Yasser Arafat
Mahmoud Abbas

| primeminister = Ahmed Qurei

| predecessor = Abdul Rahman Hamad

| successor = Sabri Saydam

| term_start1 = 29 October 2002

| term_end1 = 6 October 2003

| president1 = Yasser Arafat

| primeminister1 = Mahmoud Abbas

| predecessor1 = Mitri Abu Eita

| successor1 = Abdul Rahman Hamad

| office2 = Minister of Public Works and Housing

| term_start2 = 9 June 2002

| term_end2 = 29 October 2002

| president2 = Yasser Arafat

| predecessor2 = Abdel Rahman Tawfiq Abdel Hadi Hamad

| successor2 = Hamdan Ashou

| office3 = Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
for Jenin Governorate

| term_start3 = 7 March 1996

| term_end3 =

| predecessor3 =

| successor3 =

| office4 = Ambassador of the Palestine Liberation Organization to Iraq

| term_start4 = 1979

| term_end4 = 1994

| president4 = Yasser Arafat

| predecessor4 = Abdullah Al-Awad (Chargé d'affaires)

| successor4 =

| birth_name = Azzam Najeeb Mustafa Al-Ahmad

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|11|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rummanah, Jenin, Mandatory Palestine

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Fatah

| nationality = Palestinian

| spouse =

| children =

| alma_mater = Baghdad University (BA)

| occupation = Politician

| native_name_lang = ar

| native_name = {{nobold|عزام الأحمد}}

}}

Azzam al-Ahmad ({{langx|ar|عزام الأحمد}}; born 24 November 1947){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YWj4LuavDIC&q=Azzam+al-Ahmad+1947&pg=PA18|title=Palestine Business Law Handbook|date=20 March 2009|publisher=Int'l Business Publications|isbn=9781438737492|via=Google Books}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://www.all4palestine.org/ModelDetails.aspx?gid=13&mid=1283&lang=en|title=Azzam Najib Alahmad}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/2017/10/31/%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%87%d9%88-%d8%b9%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af|title=من هو عزام الأحمد؟|website=www.aljazeera.net|accessdate=11 March 2023}}{{cite web|url=http://info.wafa.ps/atemplate.aspx?id=3658|title=مركز المعلومات الوطني الفلسطيني|website=info.wafa.ps}} is a Palestinian politician, economist and diplomat. He holds a BA in economics from Baghdad University and has held various significant positions throughout his career. He was the head of the From 1971 to 1974, he served as the head of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in Ba'athist Iraq, later becoming the deputy head of the GUPS Executive Committee from 1974 to 1980.

Al-Ahmad was the Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to Iraq from 1979 to 1994 and has been a member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council since 1989. He was elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2006 as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, representing the Jenin Governorate.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jmcc.org/politics/pna/pagovnov03.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031203022645/http://www.jmcc.org/politics/pna/pagovnov03.htm|url-status=dead|title=Palestinian Government of November 2003|archivedate=3 December 2003|accessdate=11 March 2023}}

On 13 October 2022 he became one of the Palestinian reconciliation agreement signatories.{{Cite web|url= https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-rivals-agree-elections-end-dispute-doubts-persist-2022-10-13/ |title=Palestinian rivals agree to hold elections but doubts presist |website=Reuters|date=13 October 2022|accessdate=3 February 2023}}{{Cite web|url= https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/13/palestinian-factions-sign-reconciliation-agreement-in-algeria |title=Palestinian factions sign reconcil agreement in Algeria {{!}} Palestinian Authority News {{!}} Al Jazeera |website=Al Jazeera|date=13 October 2022|accessdate=3 February 2023}}