Birth: NULL/NULL/1945 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jerusalem in 1945 to a Roman Catholic Palestinian family; was driven with his family from their home in today’s West Jerusalem during the 1948 Nakba and resettled in the Old City of Jerusalem; graduated from the Frères College in 1964; won a visit to the US in an essay competition as a teenager and a little later a USIS scholarship to study at Franklin & Marshall College, Philadelphia; graduated with a BA in Sociology in 1970; continued his studies at Virginia University, USA, and received an MA in 1971; returned to Jerusalem and worked as a social worker; also taught at Bethlehem University after its establishment in 1973; went back to Virginia University and earned his PhD in Sociology in 1981; returned and worked as Associate Professor of Sociology at Bethlehem University from 1981-2004; served as Board of Trustees member of PASSIA since 1987; was Exec. Director of the Dept. of Service to Palestinian Refugees at the Middle East Council of Churches, Jerusalem, from 1997-2004; was elected as PLC member (Fateh, Jerusalem) in the 2006 elections (Christian quota); has (co-)authored numerous articles, essays, studies and books on issues related to Palestinian Christians, Jerusalem, democracy, refugees, and other issues, incl. Jerusalem – Religious Aspects (Jerusalem: PASSIA, 1995), and A Date with Democracy: Palestinians on Society and Politics. An Empirical Survey (Freiburg i. Br., 1996).
