ian Shobak School. He was placed in charge of reconstruction of the al-Aqsa Mosque

Al-Aqsa Mosque

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 after it burned in 1969.

A prominent leader of the Palestinian national movement after Israel

Israel

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's occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, he cofounded the Palestinian National Liberation Front

Palestinian National Liberation Front

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, which was active until 1972. He served as secretary of the Palestinian National Steering Committee in the occupied territories, which included mayors and a spectra of the Palestinian national movement, which arose in the wake of the Camp David Accords

Camp David Accords

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 between Israel and Egypt

Egypt

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.

Dakkak headed the Engineers Association in the West Bank

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 for 19 years, from 1978 until 1986. He contributed to the formation of a number of leading Palestinian civil society

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 organizations such as the Higher Council of Education and the Arab Thought Forum, which he chaired from 1978 to 1992.

In 2002, he worked on the launch of the Palestinian National Initiative with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti and Haidar Abdel-Shafi.
He chaired the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University

Birzeit University

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in 2005.