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Nasser al-Shaer
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “former education minister of the palestinian national authority serving as a member of hamas”. Today it says “palestinian politician and academic”.
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Nasser al-Din al-Shaer ( Arabic : ناصر الدين الشاعر ) (born 9 December 1961) is a Palestinian politician and academic. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and the Minister of Education and Higher Education as a member of Hamas from 2006 to 2007. After the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip , all Hamas ministers in the PNA government were dismissed, including al-Shaer.
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former education minister of the palestinian national authority serving as a member of hamas
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palestinian politician and academic
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