Birth: NULL/NULL/1944 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jaffa in 1944; fled with his family to Gaza during the 1948 Nakba; grew up in Deir Al-Balah; earned a PhD in Philosophy and Psychology; worked as a writer, journalist and author of psychotherapy advices; left Gaza and lived abroad for 30 years; founded a small party called the Movement for Justice and Freedom aimed at the building of a civilized and moral society free of corruption and violence; nominated himself in Nov. 2004 as an independent candidate for the presidential elections following the death of Pres. Yasser Arafat, but dropped out of the race a month later due to a lack of funding; announced the intention to create the ‘Party of Love’ to fight the “culture of death and hatred in Palestinian society” in June 2005, for which he received several death threats.
