Arabi Awwad

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Arabi Musa Awwad (1928 – 20 March 2015), also known as Abu Fahd, was a Palestinian communist politician who led the West Bank section of the Jordanian Communist Party and later founded the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party.

Life and education
- Born in Salfit, Palestine, Awwad studied at the Arab College in Jerusalem, graduating in 1947.
- He worked as an Arabic literature teacher in Nablus and was active in student protests.

Political career
- He joined the Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation League, and in 1955 joined the Jordanian Communist Party’s Central Committee.
- After the Six-Day War in 1967, he was named secretary of the West Bank section of the Jordanian Communist Party and led its radical wing.
- He became a key leader of the Palestinian National Front and represented the group in Palestinian political structures.
- Awwad spent more than a decade in Jordanian and Israeli prisons and was deported to Jordan in 1973.
- He was elected to the Palestinian National Council in 1974 and served on the Palestinian Central Council. He also represented the Palestinian National Front in the Palestinian political arena.

Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party
- In 1982, Awwad founded the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party and served as its general secretary.
- The RPCP took part in the armed resistance during the Lebanon War; Awwad’s son Fahd Awwad was killed in the war.

Death
- Arabi Awwad died in Amman, Jordan, on 20 March 2015.