Birth: NULL/NULL/1963 Death:NULL/NULL/2005
Born in Jerusalem in 1963 to a family from Rantis near Ramallah; was raised in Ramallah and educated at the Friends School, graduating in 1981; was arrested by Israeli forces in 1979 and, as an activist in the first Intifada in 1989; studies Business Administration at Birzeit University graduating in 1987; studied Civic Engineering and Business Administration in the Universities of West Virginia and San Francisco; was involved in PLO activities in the US; began working as a journalist in the early 1990s, first writing for local newspapers, then also as a correspondent for ABC, CNN and NBC; acted as a consultant to the US Consulate in Jerusalem from 1993-99 and to the foreign media organizations; from 1994-2003, he was senior advisor to the PA Minister of Culture and Information (later Minister of Cabinet Affairs), and Ramallah-based Palestine Media Center in 1999; from 1999-2004, co-founder and head of the Negotiation Support Unit Media Dept. in Ramallah; promoted non-violent methods of resistance to Israeli occupation and was a peace activist who helped coordinate the Palestinian Peace Coalition (PPC); established and ran the Jerusalem Institute for Peace Studies in 2005; was a member of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists; was shot dead in his home in Ramallah on 29 May 2005 by a lone gunman (according to PA security forces the killing was motivated by a personal–rather than political–quarrel).
