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Said al-Shawwa
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Person · Head of Gaza’s municipal council, 1906 to the British occupation
Said al-Shawwa
سعيد الشوا1868–1930
Born in 1868 into a wealthy family of Gaza’s Shuja‘iyya quarter, he became a merchant and one of the largest landowners in Palestine. Appointed in 1906 chairman of Gaza’s municipal council, a post he held for more than ten years until the British occupation, he built the town hall, the Amiri school and the municipal hospital and, the historian Aref al-Aref wrote, brought the first modern plough to Gaza’s farms in 1911. He died in Gaza in October 1930.
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PersonSaid al-Shawwa was born in PlaceGaza City
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