Birth: NULL/NULL/1885 Death:NULL/NULL/1953
Born in Jaffa in 1885; studied at Sheikh Ahmad Sa’ati School in Jaffa, then At Al-Rashidiyah School and the Frères College; joined the French Business Institute in Istanbul; returned and worked at his father’s orange groves in order to save money to continue his studies; enrolled at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, graduating with an MA in Economics and Social Sciences in 1914; while on a visit to Palestine in summer 1912, Sultan Abdul Hafiz, who was in Palestine en route to the Haj, was impressed by his intelligence and command of French language and asked him to join him on a trip to Morocco, where he then offered him the post of Secretary, which he declined since he wanted to continue his education; after graduation, returned to Jerusalem and taught at the Dusturiyyah School and the Salahiyya College until 1918; became Deputy Director of the Education Dept. from 1918-21; participated in conferences on architecture in Cairo in 1921 and 1924; became Director of the Islamic Museoum and Library of the Supreme Islamic Council in 1923; also worked as Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Palestinian Law Institute in Jerusalem since 1923; after the 1929 Jewish-Arab Al-Buraq disturbances, he founded and edited Al-Hayat newspaper and a weekly magazine called Arab Economics, both in Jerusalem; was a member of the Jerusalem Municipal Council, where he drafted a proposal for a federational bi-national state (1940-41); was forcibly driven out of his home in the German Colony, Jerusalem, during the 1948 events; settled in Egypt, where he became a member of the Arabic Language Academy; was appointed to the Jordanian parliament by King Talal in 1950; died in Jericho on 19 Dec. 1953.
