Birth: NULL/NULL/1882 Death:NULL/NULL/1843
Born in Ramallah in 1882; graduated from the English School in Jerusalem; worked as teacher in Gaza and later in Haifa, where he became the Director of the Orthodox School in 1907; was one of the prominent members of the ‘Unionist’ Party; fled to Egypt in 1907 after being sentenced to death for delivering an anti-Sultan Abdul Hamid II speech; worked in the media sector as editor of various newspapers before returning to Palestine in 1908; directed Orthodox schools in Haifa and Bethlehem; during WWI, served in the Ottoman army; after the War, worked as teacher at the Rashidiyyeh School in Jerusalem from 1919-22; founded Mir’at Ash-Sharq (Mirror of the East) newspaper in Jerusalem in Sept. 1919, which was the first weekly newspaper in Palestine after the British occupation (and was closed down by the British in 1939), and became its first editor; founded, along with other activists, the oppositional ‘The National Party’ in 1925; was a member of the Arab Executive from 1932-38; attended several Arab Congresses in Jerusalem, Haifa and Nablus; was known for his strong-worded articles, his poetry, and for publications, such as History of Jerusalem (co-authored with Khalil Totah, 1924); died in 1943.
