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Hamad Almatar

Member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ28715629
Source-derived summary

Hamad Mohammed Jassim Al-Matar (born July 8, 1970) is a member of the Kuwaiti National

Assembly, and holds a doctorate in industrial chemistry.

He boycotted the National Assembly elections after adjusting the number of votes from four to one, in solidarity with the Popular Action Movement in 2012. Also he is a prominent member of the Islamic Brotherhood clique in the Kuwaiti Parliament Assembly.

Memberships and achievements

Source:

Director of the Consulting and Training Office at the College of Science at Kuwait University.

Faculty member at Kuwait University - Department of Chemistry.

A faculty member at the College of Graduate Studies-Kuwait University.

Environmental advisor to the Kuwaiti municipal council.

President of the Arab Chemists Union in 2005.

President of the Kuwaiti Chemical Society from 2004 to 2006.

President of the Kuwaiti Green Peace Organization.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hamad Almatar” is member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hamad, Almatar and Member, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2012, 2005, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970. For this dossier, Hamad, Almatar and Member is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Hamad Almatar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.