Birth: NULL/NULL/1945 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Beit Jala in 1945; received a BA in English Literature from Bethlehem University in 1985; worked in a hotel in Jerusalem and was active in raising the concerns of Palestinian hotel and restaurant employees; became Steering Committee member in the Union of Hotel Workers in 1966 and elected its Chairman in 1981-82; was placed under administrative detention by Israeli occupation authorities for two years starting from April 1974; published a poetry collection while in prison, entitled Songs of the Last Nights (1975); published another collection, Star over Bethlehem, in 1977; worked as reporter and correspondent for local and international magazines and newspapers; published a third poetry collection, Come, All of You, in 1983; served as editor of the Jerusalem-based Arabic weekly Al-Tali’ah in 1983-84 and at the Palestinian English language Al-Fajr from 1985-92; was among the founders of the Palestinian Writers’ Union in the OPT the early 1980s; was a pioneer in the field of agricultural journalism; from 1992-99, served as editor-in-chief of a journal published by the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees to highlight problems and needs of Palestinian rural areas and voice the concerns of farmers; member of the PPP and elected head of its Central Control Committee in 1998; is a leading translator and interpreter and runs his own translation office.
