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Kamal Abdalfattah
Personal:
Name: Kamal Jabr Hasan Abdulfattah.
Date and place of birth: Umm el Fahm, 09,02,l943.
Marital Status: Married, two sons: Qais 27, Usaid 24.
Citizenship: Palestinian
Education:
Dr. rer.Nat (Ph.D.) Geography, Frederich-Alexander, Universitat Erlangen-Nurberg, Germany l980.
B.A. Geography, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria 1964.
Professions
1964-1968: Teacher of Geography, Jinin Sec. School, Jinin (Palestine).
1968-1973: Education Supervisor, Education/Office, Jinin District.
1973-l975: Researcher, Geographic Institute, Erlangen University (Germany).
1978-1980: Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies Department, Birzeit University.
1980-1982: Dean, Faculty of Arts, Birzeit University.
1982-1983: Chairman, Middle Eastern Studies. Department, Birzeit University.
1983-1984: Director, Research Center, Birzeit University.
1984-l990: Associate Professor, Geography Program, Department of History, Geography and Political
Science, Birzeit University.
1990-1991: Visiting Professor (Fulbright Senior Scholar), Centre For Arab And Islamic Studies, Villanova
University, Villanova PA, U.S.A.
1991-l993: Associate Professor, Geography Program, Department of History, Geography and Political Science,
Birzeit University.
1993-1994: Visiting Professor, Bayreuth University, Germany.
1994- : Associate Professor of Geography Programme, Department of Geography, Birzeit University.
1995-1996: Visiting Professor (Fulbright Senior Scholar), Geography Department , Villanova University,
Villanova PA, U.S.A.
1996 -1998 :
- Chairman, Department of History, Geography & Political Science.
- Chairman, Contemporary Arab Studies Master's Programme, Birzeit University. Chairman,
Department of Geography, Birzeit University.
1998-1999: Visiting Professor at Frederich-Alexander, Universitat Erlangen, Germany.
Scientific Memberships
1-Founding Member of the Palestinian Geographical Society, Jerusalem.
2-Member of the German Geographical Society (Frankonia Section).
3-Member of the Editorial Board of Afaq Filistiniyya, Birzeit Research Journal, Birzeit University.
4-Founding Member of the Palestinian Academic Society for International Affairs (PASSIA), Jerusalem.
5-Member of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Thought Forum in Jerusalem.
6-Member of the Board Trustees of the Arab Studies Society, Jerusalem.
7-Member of the Advisory Committee For Jerusalem of General Islamic Council, Jeddah.
8-Participant in the Tubingen Atlas der Vorderer Orient. University of Tubingen Germany.
9-Former Member of the Council of Higher Education in the West Bank and Gaza l982-1989.
10-Former Member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Homeland Atlas Baghdad Union of Arab
Universities l982-1986.
11-Former Member of the Editorial Committee of the Arab Homeland Atlas, Baghdad. Union of Arab
Universities.
Scientific Prizes
Holder of the Abdul Hamid Shuman Prize for Arab Scientists in Social Sciences l983.
Holder of Palestine Prize for Social Sciences (Geography) 1997.
List of Publications
1Abdulfattah Kamal (l964):
The town of Jinin and its Region (in Arabic).
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Published by Dar al Fikr. Damascus l964.
Abdulfattah, Kamal and Wolf Dieter
Hulteroth (l977):
Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern
Syria in the late 16th Century. (in
English). Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten.
Publisher: Frankische Geographische Gesellschaft.
Erlangen, West Germany.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (1981):
Mountain Former and Fellah-in Asir, Southwest Saudi Arabia. The Conditions of Agriculture in a
Traditional Society. (in English). Erlanger Geographische Arbiten. Publisher: Frankische
Geographische Gesellschaft. Erlangen, West Germany.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (l983):
Alexander Scholsch, ed: Palestinians Over the Green Line. Geographical Distribution of the
Palestinians on both sides of the Armistice Line of l949. (in English). Ithaca Press, London. pp. 102120.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (1987):
Nordlische Levantae, Landnustzung. Karte Ax6 in "Tubingen Atlas der Vorderer Orient (TAVO)" der
Universitat Tubingen. (in German). Publisher: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. Wiesbaden, West
Germany.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (l992):
Associate Editor and main Contributor.
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in l948. Walid
Khalidi Ed. (in English). Publisher: Institute for Palestine Studies Washington, D.C. l992.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (l979):
The Fiscal and Administrative Organization in l6th Century Palestine. (in Arabic). Published in
the proceedings of the 2nd conference on The History of Bilad Ash-Sham. Damascus University
Press, l979.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (1982):
The Arabic names of the Jewishized Palestinian Cultural Landscape. (In Arabic). Published in the
Proceedings of the 3rd conference on the History of Bilad Ash-Sham. Published in Amman, l982. Pages
377-392.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (l984):
Agricultural Environment, Human Settlement and Tribal Organization in A'sir. In "German
Geographical Research in the Middle East". (in Arabic). Pages 164-193. Editor: Eugen Wirth in
Erlanger Geographishcer Arbeiten.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (l985):
Map of the destroyed Palestinian Arab villages scale: 1:250,000. Pub. by Birzeit Research Center,
l985. (in Arabic).
Abdulfattah, Kamal (l986):
Alexander Scholsch, ed: Palestinians over the Green line. Geographical Distribution of the Palestinians
on both sides of the Armistice line of l949. Ithaca Press, London. pp. 102-120. (Palestinians over the
Green Line) was translated into Arabic and Published by Dar al Fikr, Cairo, l986.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (l990):
The Zionist Settlement in Palestine (1880-1987) in AbdulAziz ad-Duri ed: The "Palestinian Problem"
Volume II Part II. (in Arabic). Publisher Union of Arab Universities. Amman l990.
Abdulfattah, Kamal (1995):
The Arab Homeland Atlas (Main Contributer). Publisher Union of Arab Universities. Cairo 1995 (in
Arabic).
Abdulfattah, Kamal and Kopp, Horst 1996.
Von der Konfrontation zur Kooperation. Palastinas Landkarte andert sich. Geographische Rundschau ,
Jahrgang 48 Heft 10, Oktoper 1996.
The Historical Geography of the Arabian Peninsula before Islam. In History of The Arab Nation (in
Arabic).
Publisher: The Arab organization of Culture, Education and Sciences (Forthcoming 199-).