Birth: NULL/NULL/1907 Death:NULL/NULL/1984
Born in 1907 in Jerusalem; graduated from the St. George’s School, Jerusalem, in 1922; worked at the Cook Tourist Agency for seven years; was – as active young Christian – elected Secretary for the Arab Orthodox Club in Jerusalem; joined Cincinnati University in Ohio, from where he graduated with an MA in Political Science in 1933; founder and chief-editor of the English weekly Arab Federation in Jerusalem, which was closed down by British Mandate authorities after nine months of its publishing; in 1933, he was elected member of the Exec. Committee of the 7th Palestinian Congress; founded another weekly paper, The Youth, and the daily Arab Unity, in 1934 (both were also ordered closed by the British soon after); joined the Law School in Jerusalem and graduated as a lawyer; in 1935, was elected as Sec.-Gen. for the Palestinian Arab Party (until 1947), headed by Mufti-ally Jamal Husseini; was delegated in 1937 by the Arab Higher Committee to establish the Palestinian Arab Office for Media in London (becoming the first such office founded); was an Arab Higher Committee delegate to many events in 1938, incl. the Arab Parliaments’ Conference in Cairo; moved to Cairo where he lived from 1939-44; became editor-in-chief of the daily Al-Wahda from 1945-48; was elected member of the Arab Higher Committee in June 1946; participated in the 1946-47 London Conference; was elected Sec.-Gen. to the Palestine National Council organized by the Arab Higher Committee in Gaza in Oct. 1948; addressed a UN Special Political Committee in Nov. 1960 on issue of Palestinian refugees; became a member in the Lower House of the Jordanian parliament in 1966 and Minister for Work and Social Affairs in 1969; later Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs; has authored many publications on Palestine and the ANM; died in Jerusalem in 1984.
