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(Redirected from Nabil Amar) Former information minister in the Palestinian National Authority (born 1947)

Nabil Amr
نبيل عمرو
Information Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
In office
April 2003 – October 2003
Personal details
Born1947 (age 77–78)
NationalityPalestinian
Professionpolitician

Nabil Amr (Arabic: نبيل عمرو; born 1947) is a former information minister (2003) in the Palestinian National Authority, and previous ambassador to the USSR and Egypt. He was an outspoken, fierce, longtime critic of Yasser Arafat, including regarding Arafat's wrecking the peace talks and his failure to make a counter-offer at the 2000 Camp David Summit.

Amr spearheaded calls for anti-corruption democratic reforms to the Palestinian Authority that Yasir Arafat was reluctant to make. Amr complained often about corruption and cronyism in Arafat's administration.

In September 2002, after Amr called for reform of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat had the chief of his special forces fire a number of warning shots at Amr's home.

In July 2004 Amr was shot twice in his right leg, through the window of his house in Ramallah by pro-Arafat gunmen, enraging his clan, which denounced the PA for failing to find the attackers. His shooting took place minutes after he returned to his home from a television interview on a popular political talk show, in which he criticised Arafat’s performance as president. Amr said the attack on him was intended to stifle him from calling for reforms in the Palestinian Authority. Due to injuries from the shooting, Amr's right leg was amputated from the knee down.

He later lived in his hometown of Dura, southwest of Hebron.

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