Abd al-Sattar Qasim was a Palestinian writer, thinker, political analyst, and academic from the town of Deir al-Ghusun, Tulkarm district, and a professor of political science and Palestinian studies in Nablus. He was born in 1948, and died in 2021 from COVID-19. He published 25 books, about 130 scholarly papers, and thousands of articles. Qasim was a professor of political science and Palestinian studies at An-Najah National University in Nablus. He is known for his positions rejecting the settlement with Israel and critical of the Palestinian Self-Government Authority.