Birth: NULL/NULL/1932 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Mi’ilya, Galilee in 1932; was raised and educated in Mi’ilya; high school studies in Acre, graduating in 1947; received a Diploma from the Teachers’ College in Jaffa in 1949; worked as a school teacher from 1949-59; received a Diploma from an Institute in Tel Aviv University in 1955; enrolled in Oriental Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, graduating with a BA in 1962; continued his studies and received an MA in Oriental Studies from Princeton University, US in 1965; earned a PhD in Modern Islamic and Near East Studies from Princeton University, US, in 1968; was Assistant Professor at the Universities of Georgetown and Maryland from 1967-73; served as Director of the Research and Israeli Studies Dept. of the IPS in Beirut from 1973-82; since 1982, works in Damascus as a researcher on issues related to Palestinian history; his studies include Al-Riddah and the Muslim Conquest of Arabia (Beirut, 1972), From Settlement to Alliance: Begin’s Road to Cairo (Arabic, IPS, 1979), Israel and the ‘Carter Plan’ (Arabic, IPS, 1986), A Digest of Palestine’s Political History (Since the Beginning of History until 1949) (Arabic, IPS, 3rd ed. 2003).
