Birth: NULL/NULL/1900 Death:NULL/11/1938
Born in Jerusalem in 1900; founder of Muqtatafl Al-Durus (Selection of Lessons) in Jerusalem in Jan. 1918 (renamed Al-Muntada Al-Adabi – the Literary Gathering later that year), and its leader; published a short-lived newspaper, Al-Quds Ash-Sharif, in 1920; among those who accepted the Balfour Declaration as an unchangeable fact but demanded that Jewish immigration should be regulated; one of the founders of the Liberal Party (Hizb Al-Ahrar) in 1930; member of the pro-mu’arada faction; member and Secretary of the National Defense Party, founded in 1934; legal counsel and head of the Arab Car Owners’ and Drivers’ Association; declared and organized a general strike of Arab transport facilities to protest against the British rule in 1936; was arrested by the British later that year; called for a general strike in all sections of Palestine; worked as a journalist, lawyer and politician; was assassinated in Ramallah in Nov. 1938 in the infighting among Palestinian factions.
