Birth: 1/1/1895 Death:1/1/1955
Born in Safad in 1895; grew up in Safad; pursued his studies at the Ottoman Sultanate School in Beirut; after WWI broke out, served with the Ottoman army; became a leader of the Great Arab Revolution led by Al-Hussein Ibn ‘Ali against the Turks in 1916; was selected one of the students to study at the As-Salahiyah College established by Jamal Pasha in Jerusalem to train advocates of Islamic unity (the college was moved to Damascus in 1917, when the British approached Jerusalem); joined the army of Emir Faisal that entered Damascus in 1918; returned to Palestine after the fall of the Arab government in Damascus in 1920, where he studied, and later practiced, law; participated in the Syrian Revolt against France in 1925; wrote in Aug. 1930 in Al-Jammiyya Al-Arabia, as an ex-officer of the Palestinian Revolt of 1916, that “Britain should bear the full responsibility for suppressing the Arabs and supporting the Zionist’s interests;” member of the Istiqlal Party founded in 1932; took part in every revolution in Palestine prior to 1948; spent a total of three years in jail between 1936-39; helped preparing – together with Awni Abdul Hadi and Rashid Haj Ibrahim – a memorandum about Arab lands in Palestine, which was presented before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946; was a member of the military committee organizing the unrests of 1947; was displaced to Damascus after the 1948 Nakba, where he worked on Palestinian refugee issues; died in Damascus on 4 July 1955.
