Birth: NULL/NULL/1941 Death:NULL/NULL/1978
Born in Jaffa in 1941; was forced to flee with his family to Amman during the 1948 Nakba; received a BA in English Literature from Damascus University in 1964; worked as a journalist and teacher; became a member of the Ba’ath Party and editor-in-chief of its newspaper Ittihad Al-Ummal (Labor Union); joined Fateh in 1967 and worked for some time with Al-’Asifa; was elected Fateh delegate to the PNC in Feb. 1969; after the 1970 Black September events, moved to Lebanon, where he continued his political work; was elected Fateh delegate to the Arab League office in 1972; was appointed as the PLO’s first delegate to the UK (officially as head of the Arab League’s Palestinian Information Office) from 1972; published articles in the Times in late 1973, calling for mutual Israeli-Palestinian recognition; met MK Uri Avineri in 1974, marking the first ever meeting between an Israeli MK and a PLO leader; supported the notion of a Palestinian state in the 1967 territories through negotiations (two-state solution); was assassinated on 4 Jan. 1978 in London; buried in Amman.
