Birth: 1/1/1939 Death:1/1/1981
Born in Jaffa in 1939; was displaced during the 1948 Nakba to Lebanon; studied at the AUB and received a BA (1961) and an MA (1965); was active in the Ba’ath Party; received a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 1970; worked for a while with the Kuwaiti government and in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Ahrar; member of the PNC since 1968; leading member of the Arab Liberation Front (ALF), as whose Sec.-Gen. he served from 1972-74; was a member of the PLO Exec. Committee from 1973-77, representing ALF; founded the Arab Institute for Research and Publishing in Beirut in the early 1970s, and the Third World Center in London in 1979; was especially known for his publications on Palestinian Arab Resistance to the British Mandate and Zionism (1918-39) (Tunisia, 1968; Institute for Palestine Studies, 1988) and Modern History of Palestine (Arabic, 1970); assassinated by unidentified gunmen in Beirut on 6 Dec. 1981 and buried in Amman.
