Ramadan Shalah

1961, Saja’iyyah; Gaza. Undergraduate at the Zagazig University in Egypt, doctorate in economics from the University of Durham in the UK, adjunct professor taught Middle East studies 1991 at the University of South Florida (USF) and headed the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), a think tank dealing with Middle East issues that was affiliated with USF during the period 1992-95. He left USF in 1995. Lecturer in the Economics Department of Gaza’s Islamic University. Ramadan Shalah became one of the founders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ), edited its internal political journal, returned to the Gaza Strip on 1981, and became a sought-after speaker. He was chosen as the PIJ’s secretary general in late 1995 after Fathi Shiqaqi died in Malta