Salīm ʻArafāt Mubayyiḍ

Salim 'Arafat Ibrahim Al-Moubayed (June 1, 1943 – February 28, 2024) , was a Palestinian writer and historian. Sometimes referred to as the "Historian of the Gaza Strip," he is considered one of the most prominent contemporary Palestinian and Arab historians.

Biography Salim Arafat Al-Moubayed was born on June 1, 1943, in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. He received his primary education at the Shuja'iyya School and completed his secondary education at the Palestine School and the Jaffa School in 1961. He obtained a Bachelor of Geography degree from Ain Shams University in 1965 and a postgraduate diploma from the same university in 1966.

Al-Mubayyid worked as a teacher at Jaffa High School in 1965, then as principal of Al-Karmel High School from 1976 to 1979, and then as an inspector of social studies in the Gaza Strip until the late 1980s. He worked as a part-time lecturer at the Islamic University from 1990 to 1995.

He was founder and secretary-general of the Palestinian National Library. He also contributed to the establishment of the Palestinian Planning Center and the Center for Historical Research.

He died at the age of 80 on February 28, 2024, in Gaza City.