Birth: NULL/NULL/1922 Death:NULL/NULL/1980
Born in Khirbet Houran, Syria, in 1922 to a Christian family (Syrian father and Palestinian mother); moved with his family (the father was a priest) to Al-Buseh village (near Tiberias) in 1924, then to Tiberias in 1930; attended the Scottish College in Safad; studied at the AUB graduating with a BA in 1941 and an MA, majoring in Philosophy, in 1945; then worked as Professor of Philosophy there from 1945-47; continued his studies and earned a PhD from Georgetown University in 1949; was a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon from 1937 until having disputes with its leader Anton Sa’adeh in 1947; worked for the UN from 1950-55, first in the General News Bureau, then in the Social Affairs Bureau; from 1955-59, served as consultant to the Yemeni delegation to the UN; headed the Palestine Arab National Council in Beirut in 1959; was Visiting Fellow at Stanford University from 1960-62 and at Oxford from 1962-64; then returned to teach at the AUB from 1964-67; member of the PNC from 1964-80; member of the PLO Exec. Committee from 1964-66; founder and Dir.-Gen. of the Palestine Research Center in Beirut from 1964-66; served as observer of the Arab League at the UN, and as counselor to the Kuwaiti delegation to the UN until his death; author of Arab Unity: Hope and Fulfillment (New York, 1958), and several books, pamphlets and essays in English and Arabic, mainly on the Palestine problem; died of a heart attack in 1980.
