Birth: NULL/NULL/1941 Death:NULL/NULL/1984
Born in Old City of Jerusalem on 4 Nov. 1941 to a Christian family from Al-Taybeh, near Ramallah; studied at the Frères College and the Al-Ibrahimieh School in Jerusalem, where he was educated by Bahjat Abu Gharbiyyeh; graduated from high school in 1959 and worked in the field of journalism, writing in the Filastin and the Manar newspapers; moved to Kuwait in 1961 and worked for Al-Hadaf, Al-Ra’ie Al-’Aam and Al-Risala papers; was deported because of his political views; returned to Jerusalem in March 1964; was briefly arrested for supporting the ideas of Gamal Abdul Nasser; began working again with Filastin newspaper, then Al-Dustour; moved to Jordan in 1967 after some pressures by Israeli authorities regarding his writings; joined Fateh in Amman and continued working with Al-Dustour in Jordan; studied Journalism at Alexandria University (via distance learning) for some time before 1967; was among the founders of the Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists in 1969, its member and elected Sec.-Gen. from 1973-80; Board member of the Fateh weekly in Damascus from June 1970 until it was closed down on 17 Sept. 1970; also co-founded Filastin Ath-Thawra in 1970 (published in Beirut where it was supervised by Kamil Nasir); resigned over his opposition to what he considered a rapprochement policy with Israel after 1973; was elected Sec.-Gen. of the Arab Journalists’ Union in 1979 and again in Baghdad in 1983; founded Al-Quds Press in 1974 in Beirut; escaped several an Israeli assassination attempts, incl. one in Beirut on 25 July 1978; was arrested by Lebanese authorities at the Beirut International Airport for his PLO activity; worked after his release for Al-Ma’raka daily in Beirut in 1982; moved to Cyprus and founded Al-Sharq Press in 1982; was assassinated by Israeli agents in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 3 May 1984, and buried in Amman two days later.
