Birth: NULL/NULL/1943 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Nazareth in 1943; grew up and attended elementary and secondary schools in Nablus, Amman, Ramallah and Jerusalem, where he graduated in 1960; studied in France at the universities of Montpellier and Paris, receiving a Diploma in Civil Engineering and an MA in Solid Mechanics; founded with other students the GUPS in Paris and served as its Pres. from 1965-69; joined the PLO in Jan. 1968; moved to Beirut in 1972, where he worked in the Palestinian Research Center until 1974, and in the PLO Information Dept. until 1976; member of the General Palestinian Union of Writers and Journalists since 1974; worked for the weekly political magazine Al-Hurriyyah from 1976; became PNC member in 1977; served as editor-in-chief of Al-Hurriyyah from 1981-94; was elected member of the DFLP Central Committee in 1981, and member of its politburo in 1988; left Beirut after the Israeli invasion of 1982, and moved first to Algiers, then to Damascus, Nicosia, and again Damascus, where he lived until 1996, acting as a media liaison for the DFLP; returned to Palestine in 1996 and founded on behalf of the DFLP the Al-Massar Studies Center in Ramallah, which published the fortnightly Al-Massar under the motto “For the Freedom of the Homeland and the Dignity of the Citizen”, from April 1997-March 2002 (when Israeli forces raided Al-Massar’s office); published numerous studies and articles; member of the DFLP politburo.
