Birth: NULL/NULL/1925 Death:NULL/NULL/2021
Born in Ein Hares village, near Nablus, in 1925; attended Al-Bakriyah School, then Al-Rashidiyyeh School and the Arab College in Jerusalem; graduated in 1945 and was selected by the Mandatory authorities to study Law at the University of London (Law Licentiate 1948; MA, 1950); barrister in law in 1950; went to the US in 1957 to study oil and natural gas law, and earned a PhD; co-founder of the International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD); former Chairman of the Petroleum Committee, who drew up the petroleum law in Libya; worked as advisor to the Libyan Ministry of Justice from 1952-60; returned to Britain to pursue his studies and received a PhD in Law from the University of London in 1969; affiliated with the DFLP; member of the PNC and Chairman of the PNC’s Legal Committee; member of the Steering Committee for the Palestinian delegation to the 1991 Madrid conference; in the early 1990s, editor of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law in Amman; after 1993, main force behind drafting the PA’s Basic Law for the transitional period as mandated by the PLO Exec. Committee; came to Palestine for the first time in 1994 to present his draft; worked as a barrister in London in the second half of the 1990s; Board of Trustees member of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza; among his works are The Meaning of Freedom for the Arab World (Arabic, 1954), We, the Vatican and Israel (Arabic, 1966); he passed away on 7 January 2021 in Spain.
