Birth: NULL/NULL/1949 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Beirut on 13 July 1949; granddaughter of Jamal Al-Husseini and grandniece of Musa Al-Alami; was educated at the Collège Protestant Français in Beirut; received a BA (1971) and an MA (1974) in Anthropology from the AUB; became a Fateh member, while studying at the AUB in 1968; was editor-in-chief of the student magazine “Outlook” during the famous AUB strike period in the 1970s; left for France to continue her PhD at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes on the “Social Structure of the Palestinian Camps” but never completed as she got increasingly involved in politics, first as GUPS Pres. in France in 1976, then working with PLO representative Izzeddin Al-Qalaq; married the Moroccan writer Mohamed Berrada in 1977 and lived with him in Morocco until 1989, when Pres. Yasser Arafat appointed her as the first Palestinian woman Ambassador in Ireland, where she served from 1989-92, followed by postings in the Netherlands (1990-93), Denmark (1992-93), Unesco (1993-96) and France (1993-2005); was appointed Palestinian Ambassador to the EU, Belgium and Luxemburg in Oct. 2005; took part in the founding of the Revue des Etudes Palestiniennes; serves as Board of Trustees member of the IPS as well as of the Arab Development Society in Jericho.
