He also received a BA in Economics from Baghdad University. Head of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in Iraq from 1971-4. Deputy head of GUPS Executive Committee from 1974–80.
Palestine Liberation Organization ambassador to Iraq from 1979-94. Al-Ahmad was born in the village of Rummanah, located in north of Jenin. In 1968,His father, Najeeb al-Ahmad was deported across the Jordan River by the Israeli Army after its occupation of the West Bank.
He was a Fatah-RC member from 1989 and is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council representing the Jenin Governorate as a Fatah candidate. In exile in Amman after 1967, Najeeb and his family of nine children found fertile grounds for their cause and political activities. Azzam al-Ahmad graduated from high school and joined the Syrian universities but later moved to Baghdad with the coming of the Ba'ath party to power in Iraq in 1969 as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.
Soon after deportation, Najeeb became a prominent member of the Jordanian parliament.
