Birth: 1/1/1939 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jerusalem in 1939; moved with her family to England in 1949, following the Nakba events; studied Medicine at Bristol University; practiced as a doctor for many years; continued her studies and received her PhD in the History of Arabic Medicine from London University; was among the founders of a British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972; worked with migrants and refugees; worked as a research associate on Middle Eastern issues at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and at the Universities of Durham and Leeds; former Pres. of the Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK; founded the International Campaign for Jerusalem in London in 1994; Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London from 1999-2001; edited the Jerusalem File, the newsletter of the International Campaign for Jerusalem; Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK; serves as Vice-Chair of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) in London; co-editor with Eugene Cotran, The Palestinian Exodus, 1948-1998 (Ithaca Press, 1999), editor of Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process? (Ithaka Press, 1996), and author of her memoirs In Search of Fatima (Verso Press, 2002).
