Baker Abdel Munem

Baker Abdel Munem ( _ar. بكر عبد المنعم,1942- ) is the Palestinian National Authority's official ambassador to Canada. He was born in Ramla during the British Mandate era of Palestine, but fled with his family to Jordan during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. [http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/dojo/5569/pal4aaa.htm Dr. Eng. Baker Abdel Munem] Abdel Munem, Baker. Geocities.]

Abdel Munem attended Cairo University in 1966, graduating with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and served as head of the main electric power station in Jordan for seven years. He returned to Cairo University to continue his studies and obtained his MSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1975. Abdel Munem served as chairman of the General Union of Palestinian Students from 1978 to 1983 when he obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Czechoslovakia. In 1979, he became a member of the Palestine National Council (PNC), and an elected member the Fatah-Revolutionary Council in 1989. In 1985, he earned a PhD in Economics from Germany in and a PhD in Political Science from the United States in 1988.

Abdel Munem's first diplomatic post was the Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to Japan in 1983. On July 23, 1995 he was assigned to head the newly-established Palestinian National Authority's general delegation to Canada, which has continued to the present-day.

Abdel Munem currently resides in Ottawa and is married to Ghada Abu Laban, has two daughters, Madiha and Kinana and one son, Abdel Munem.

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Abdel Munem authored several books.
*"Palestine in My Heart" 1991
*"The PLO and the Gulf War" 1991
*"An Inside Story of the Middle East Peace Conference" 1993
*"Old Japanese Folk Tales" 1995
*"Songs to Hiroshima (Poems)" 1996

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