Birth: NULL/NULL/1893 Death:NULL/NULL/1958
Born in 1893 in Salt to a family from Nablus; was educated at the Turkish College in Beirut; in the early 1920s, became member of the Advisory Council of the British Mandate authorities; was elected mayor of Nablus in 1925 (in the first municipal elections since the British Mandate commenced) remaining in that post until 1950; was a member of the Nashashibi-led opposition during the Mandate period; co-founded the National Defense Party in 1934; fled into exile in Dec. 1937 to escape internecine violence following the 1936 Arab Revolt; was among those who pleaded that a Palestinian delegation be allowed to participate in the armistice negotiation at Rhodes during 1948-49; was appointed to the Jordanian Senate and the Royal Court; served as DM from 1951-52; was again appointed DM and served as Military Governor in 1957; served as DM of the Iraqi-Jordanian federation of 1958; was killed during the Iraqi Revolt in Baghdad on 14 July 1958.
