Birth: NULL/NULL/1908 Death:NULL/NULL/1984
Born in Nazareth in 1908 to a Bedouin family from Al-Huwara in Galilee; attended local schools in Nazareth, then the Teachers’ College in Jerusalem; worked from 1932-42 as a school teacher; joined, at the same time, the School of Law in Jerusalem, graduating as a lawyer; was close to Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini; founded the Al-Najada movement in Haifa aiming to unite Arab youth in 1945; served as Commander of the Palestine Arab Youth Organization; tried to smuggle arms into Palestine from Egypt; wrote a book entitled Sirr An-Nakba (“The Secret Behind the Disaster”) (Nazareth, 1952); broke with Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini and attempted to negotiate peace between Arabs and Jews in 1949; member, together with Aziz Shehadeh, of the “unofficial” Palestinian delegation to the Lausanne conferences of the Palestine Conciliation Commission that took place between April-Aug. 1949, where they appeared as “representatives of refugee camps”; opened a law office in Nazareth in the early 1950s; was later appointed a judge.
