Birth: 8/9/1946 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jaffa on 8 Sept. 1946 to a Christian family; joint Fateh in 1967 and was put in charge of the media offices in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon from 1968-69; received a BA in Business Administration and Accounting from the Arab University in Beirut in 1972; was elected Sec.-Gen. of the GUPS in Lebanon from 1970-74; in 1975, was appointed as commander for the Military Camp of the Martyr Abu Sha’ar, which was responsible to recruit and train students who wanted to join the fedayeen; went on to study Economics and Political Science at Sofia University, Bulgaria, graduating with an MA in 1975 and a PhD in 1978; returned and worked at Chairman Yasser Arafat’s office in Beirut from 1978; left for Tunis with the PLO leadership in 1982, and worked there as a close aide to Arafat until May 1994, when he returned to Palestine; was assigned to establish two headquarters for Arafat, one in Gaza, the other in Jericho; served as personal representative to Arafat and was sent on his behalf on various official missions to Europe and Africa; in 1996, became Deputy Sec.-Gen. of the President’s Office; was also appointed by Arafat as a committee member for Christian Churches affairs and as member of the presidential committee responsible to prepare for the Bethlehem 2000 events; was member of the special committee in charge PLO-Vatican relations; was appointed by Pres. Mahmoud Abbas in June 2005 as acting head of the Palestinian National Fund in Amman.
