Birth: NULL/NULL/NULL Death:NULL/NULL/1923
Born in Jerusalem; head of the Beersheba and Ramleh sub-districts during the late Ottoman period; helped uncover the Jewish NILI spy ring that worked against the Ottomans during WWI; was arrested by the British when they occupied Ramleh, Lydda, and Jaffa in 1918 and exposed to severe torture in the detention camp in Egypt; released in 1919 and returned to Jerusalem; joined the nationalist Arab Club and attended the 1919 General Syrian Congress in Damascus; launched As-Sabah newspaper, which was associated with the Arab Executive in Jerusalem in 1921; was murdered on his way to Najd, Saudi Arabia, in 1923, on a mission on behalf of Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini.
