User:Samirdaoud12/sandbox

= Shawqi Habib = Shawqi Yousif Habib (شوقي يرسف حبيب), Born in 1929. He received his primary education at the official school of Ibillin and then at the official Shafa'amr School. He received his secondary education at Jerusalem's Terra Sancta College and graduated with a certificate of “Palestine Matriculation" and a certificate of “London Matriculation". He then enrolled in the Rashidiya College in Jerusalem for one semester and returned to his village due to poor security conditions in Jerusalem.

With the establishment of the State of Israel he was appointed teacher in several schools, including Ibillin, Shafa'amr and Nazareth.

He joined the Technion University in Haifa, where he graduated in the summer of 1956 with a B.Sc. in chemical engineering. He wasn’t  given the opportunity to work in this profession. He returned to the teaching profession at the Baptist School in Nazareth where in the year 1/11/1966 became the Principle of the Municipal High School. He has made great efforts to raise the level of education there.

On 1/1/1970, He was selected to work  as a ministry of education  inspector in arab preparatory and secondary schools in the country where he worked on the development of scientific branches and opened many new secondary schools. During his work, Shawqi Habib developed a series of four-part school books on chemistry, which helped solve the crisis of textbooks in Arabic. He also translated many Hebrew school books in chemistry, physics and biology to Arabic for middle and secondary schools. He worked hard to raise the level of science teachers and the success rate of Arab students in scientific subjects.

On 1/8/1994 he applied for retirement and since that time spends his time writing poetry, which was his first talent and passion since he was a high school student. In 2002, he published his poetry collection entitled "Hopes and Pain” (آمال وألام).

Professor Shawki Habib died on 7/1/2018.