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AMIN AT-TAMIMI

AMIN AT-TAMIMI

Birth: NULL/NULL/1892 Death:NULL/NULL/1944
Born in Nablus in 1892; studied in Istanbul; was elected to the Administrative Board of the Young Arab Society in 1918 and became its Sec.-Gen.; was member of the Arab-Palestinian delegation that went to London in 1921 and Switzerland in 1923; was appointed as inspector of governors during the late Ottoman rule; succeeded Abdul Latif Salah as Nablus representative to the Higher Islamic Council and was elected Deputy to its Chairman Haj Amin Al-Husseini; went to Lebanon to join the Palestinian National Movement under the leadership of Haj Amin Al-Husseini; and in 1939 left secretly to Iraq then Iran following pressures by the French authorities; during WWII was arrested by the British authorities and exiled to Rhodesia, where his health deteriorated, leading to his death in 1944.

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