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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Izz al-Din al-Shawa was born in Gaza City in 1902 and completed his primary and secondary studies there at the Constitutional School in Jerusalem . In 1917 he joined the American University in Beirut before going in 1921 to Cambridge University in Britain, where he obtained a BA and then a MA in Agriculture in 1928. .
Then he returned to Gaza, where he worked in the development of agriculture, starting with his father's lands, and for that he imported agricultural machinery.
Despite Ezz El-Din's dedication to agricultural projects, his preoccupation with the issue of Palestinian and Arab national liberation continued to preoccupy him.
Therefore, when the 1929 revolution erupted , he participated in it, and he was arrested and sentenced to one month in prison.
In 1930, Izz al-Din was appointed director of the village teachers ’ school affiliated with the Kadoorie Agricultural School in Tulkarm , then he was transferred to Haifa as a mayor and then transferred to Jenin.
In 1936 Izz al-Din participated in the revolution and joined Fawzi al-Qawuqji 's forces while he was still in his position in Jenin, so in 1937 the British Mandate authority decided to transfer him from Jenin to Haifa, so he fled. The accounts of his escape from Haifa vary, as the Palestinian Encyclopedia states that he fled to Damascus and from there to Beirut, while the Encyclopedia of Palestinian Flags in the twentieth century states that he entered Egypt with a forged passport and remained hidden there for three days for fear of falling into the hands of the British authorities, and from Egypt he went to Beirut by sea.
Under pressure from the British, the French expelled Izz al-Din from Beirut to Damascus and banned him from political activity, so he went from there to Baghdad, where he met Rashid Ali al-Kilani and established contacts with leaders in the Iraqi army, including Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh and Fahmi al-Saeed , and obtained weapons from them that he transferred to the revolutionaries. In Palestine, and facilitated the escape of Muhammad Amin Al-Hussein to Baghdad.
In 1948, Izz al-Din was appointed by King Abdul Aziz as an assistant to the governor of the pipeline, Prince Muhammad bin Ahmed al-Sudairi (currently the northern border region of Arar), and he remained in his position until 1956, and left Saudi Arabia for Beirut, where he resided there. He has two sons Marwan and a daughter named Malaka.
After the failure of the Iraqi army in its revolution led by Al-Kilani against the British, Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini moved from Baghdad to Tehran via Mosul in an ambulance . He managed to flee to Saudi Arabia under a false identity, where he worked in the development of agriculture in the nascent country. Izz al-Din al-Shawa was the translator of King Abdulaziz Al Saud in his meeting with US President Roosevelt , which took place on February 14, 1945 on the deck of the US warship Quincy , which was the meeting that established the relationship of Saudi Arabia with the United States of America.
In 1948, Izz al-Din joined the Palestinian revolution, and when the Nakba occurred, he sought refuge in Lebanon, where he lived until his death on June 24, 1969.
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