Birth: NULL/NULL/1908 Death:NULL/NULL/1975
Born in Lydda in 1908; received his school education in the Teachers’ College in Jerusalem, graduating in 1924; studied at the AUC and received a BA in Social Sciences and Literature in 1933; worked as teacher in public schools in Palestine and in the Friends’ School in Ramallah; then became Assistant to Program Director Ibrahim Tuqan at the Palestinian radio in 1936, before he moved to the field of translation in 1937; Assistant Inspector of the Labor Affairs Dept. from 1942-45; then appointed Inspector of Cooperatives in 1945 but resigned in 1946; worked briefly in the Arab Construction Project in Jerusalem then became Administrative Director of the Jaffa Municipality in 1947; after the Nakba, moved to Jordan, then to Cairo, where he worked at the AUC as teacher, then Dean of the Education College; went on a tour to the US to learn about modern methods of education; returned to Jordan in 1953 and worked as Director of the Teacher’s College; became consultant for the Unesco program on education in Libya in 1960; assumed the role of Director of the Research, Statistics and Planning Dept. in the Jordanian Ministry of Education (1962), then of Director of UNRWA’s Educational Dept. in Jordan; member of the PLO Exec. Committee since 1965; Dir.-Gen. of the Jordanian Radio in 1967; served as Director of the PLO office in Cairo and as PLO representative to the Arab League; writer of story collections like ‘Ashar Aqassis (Ten Stories) (1959); died in 1975.
