Birth: NULL/NULL/1927 Death:NULL/NULL/2009
Born in Khan Younis on 1 Jan. 1927; elementary and secondary education in Jaffa graduating in 1946; became Sec.-Gen. of An-Najada national organization in Jaffa and the Arab Students’ Organization in 1947; served as Secretary of the Security Council formed in the Arab Orthodox Club in Jaffa in 1947 aiming to protect the city from Zionist expansion; received a BA from Suffolk University in 1950 and a higher degree in Law from Boston University in 1951; continued his studies and earned a PhD in Legal Jurisprudence from Pennsylvania University in 1957; was an Exec. Committee member and served as Vice-Pres. of the Arab Student Organization in the US in the mid 1950s; worked for the Arab League Promotion Office as Head of the UN Dept. from 1955-59; was consultant for the Syrian delegation to the UN in 1957, providing resources about the Palestinian Question; after the declaration of the United Arab Union, was appointed Jordanian deputy representative to the UN in New York in 1959; worked in the Jordanian representative office in Cairo in 1963; was appointed Jordanian delegate to the UN in 1965 and became its representative to the UNSC in 1967; served as Jordanian deputy representative to Spain in 1970; currently works as freelance writer.
