Birth: NULL/NULL/1936 Death:NULL/NULL/1978
Born in Tantura, near Haifa, in 1936; became refugee with his family during the 1948 Nakba, ending up in Damascus; joined Damascus University to study Chemistry; was politically active with the Communist Party, for which he was imprisoned from 1959-61; continued his studies upon his release and graduated in 1963; published short stories in Syrian papers; worked for two years as teacher of Physics and Chemistry in Al-Yamama Secondary School in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; earned a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Poitiers in Paris in 1969; joined Fateh in France; was elected in 1969 as head of GUPS from 1969-70; worked together with PLO representative in Paris, Mahmoud Hamshari, on raising awareness on the Palestine Question in France, especially among leftist circles; was appointed as PLO representative to France in 1973, replacing the assassinated Hamshari; among his contributions in documenting Palestinian culture was a collection of Palestinian stamps; started the PLO Cinema Dept. in Paris; was assassinated in Paris on 2 Aug. 1978 (probably by operatives from the Abu Nidal group) and was buried in Al-Shuhada’ cemetery in Damascus; his publications include a story collection entitled Martyrs without Statues (Arabic, 1980) as well as two books on Palestinian stamps, one of which was published in Arabic by the Arab Graphic Society in 1978.
