Birth: NULL/NULL/1953 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Damascus on 5 July 1953 to parents from Al-Tireh, Haifa; was educated in UNRWA schools in Al-Yarmouk Refugee Camp; joined the PFLP in late 1969; completed his secondary education at Al-Kawakibi High School in Damascus in 1972; became member of the PFLP Central Committee in 1972 and was head of its student movement and its Political Relations Committee; moved to Baghdad in 1974, where he was active in the Palestinian student movement and continued working in PFLP offices in Iraq; received a BA in Political Science from Baghdad University in 1978; was appointed PFLP representative to Iraq in 1978; was deported to Lebanon in 1980; was appointed PFLP representative to Libya in 1981; returned to Lebanon in 1982 and was appointed Sec.-Gen. of the PFLP Organizational Dept.; participated in the resistance against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982; served as PFLP Sec.-Gen. in Damascus from 1983-89; continued his studies and earned a PhD in Political Science from the Institute for Social Sciences in Moscow in 1991; is an elected member of the PFLP politburo since 1993 and in charge of its Cultural Dept.; in 1995, was assigned to be in charge of the PFLP Media and Cultural Dept. and be the general supervisor of Al-Hadaf magazine; was re-elected as politburo member during the 6th General PFLP Conference in 2000 and put in charge of the PFLP outside the OPT; participated on behalf of his faction in national unity talks – held abroad – with Pres. Mahmoud Abbas during 2004-2005.
