Birth: 13/1/1950 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in the African Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem (from parents hailing from Chad) on 13 Jan. 1950; attended the Frères College in the Old City of Jerusalem; after the Israeli occupation in 1967 became politically active, incl. becoming a member of the PFLP; was arrested in 1968 for planting a bomb in West Jerusalem and for membership in the PFLP; was sentenced to 20 years in prison, of which he served 17; completed high school education in prison; was released in 1985 following prisoner exchange between Palestinians and Israelis; began working with progressive Israeli activists at the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem as a translator for four and a half years; works part-time as a tourist guide in Jerusalem since then; also worked as a freelance journalist, at one time acting as main editor of Al-Carmel weekly bulletin (which stopped publishing for financial reasons); was member of the Arab Journalist Association after 1985; acted as spokesperson of the Democratic Journalist Association in the 1990s; published his biography under the title For My Son Mohammed (Jerusalem, 1998).
