The former head of An-Najah National University, Rami Hamdallah, has been sworn in as the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority.
Hamdallah, a British-educated linguistics professor, had been president of An-Najah National University in Nablus since 1998. He was named as prime minister by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on 2 June.
In his time at An-Najah, Hamdallah significantly expanded the university’s research system to make it the largest university in the West Bank, according to Ynetnews.
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