Birth: NULL/NULL/1940 Death:NULL/NULL/2009
Born in Jerusalem in 1940; received his secondary education at Rashidiyyeh School in Jerusalem; studied Dentistry at Damascus University, graduating in 1964; moved to Jordan, where he was arrested by the authorities in 1966 and 1971 for his political activism; was a co-founder and Sec.-Gen. of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PSF) since 1974; member of the PLO-Exec. Committee, representing the PSF; left for Tunis in 1989, where he got closer to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat; supported the 1991 Madrid peace conference and subsequent Oslo process and Accords; returned to Palestine in 1994 and was appointed the PA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs from 1994-98; voted against the Hebron Agreement in Jan. 1997; resigned in Jan. 1998; from August 1998 he was briefly a Minister without portfolio, working on the Jerusalem file; served as an Arafat advisor at Camp David in July 2000; was appointed as PLO official for Jerusalem Affairs at the Orient House at non-cabinet ministerial level on 29 Oct. 2002 (until April 2003).
