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| ABDUL
HADI, NAIM (1912-) |
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Born in 1912 in Nablus; engineer; mayor of Nablus 1951-55; contributed
as such a lot to the city's development; Minister of Public Works
and Economy in Jordan, 1955-57; member of Parliament in 1956. |
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| ABU
GHARBIYEH, BAHJAT |
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Cofounder (with Abdullah Rimawi and Abdullah Nawas) of the Baath
Arab Party's branch in Ramallah (Renaissance Party) in 1952; active
member of the PNC; member of PLO Executive Committee in the 1960s. |
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| EREKAT,
KAMEL (1906-) |
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served in the British Police in 1926; participated in the Palestinian
resistance movement under the leadership of Abdul-Qader
al-Husseini in the 1940s; elected member of Jordanian parliament
in the 1950s and its speaker in the 1970s. |
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| JA'ABARI,
SHEIKH MOHAMMED ALI
(1900-1980) |
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Head of the Jericho conference of December 1948 which called for
the unification of West Bank and Jordan. Hold a seat in the upper
chamber of the Jordan government in the 1950s; mayor of Hebron from
1948-76; proposed after the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in
1967 a transitional phase of 5 years with Israeli military redeployment
after which Palestinians would exercise their right for self-determination;
member of various Jordanian cabinets in the 1970s. |
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| HAMUDA,
YAHYA |
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Palestinian lawyer and left-wing politician from Jerusalem; member
and representative of the Communist Party; in the early 1950s head
of the refugee Congress in the 50's; from-1967-69 ineffectual head
of the "collective leadership" of the PLO. |
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| KANA'AN,
HAMDI TAHER (1910-1981) |
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Industrial entrepreneur and community leader; board member and
Secretary-General of Nablus Chamber of Commerce (1950-65); member,
Municipal Council (1951-69); Mayor of Nablus (1963-69). His distinguished
leadership in early phase of the occupation was decisive in reversal
of exodus of rural population from frontier villages of the Jenin,
Tulkarm and Qalqiliah triangle, and in maintaining solidarity among
West Bank mayors; his self-respectful and forthright style of dealing
with the occupation authorities set an example which strengthened
the mayor's resolve as elected community leaders, to stand up to the
excesses of the occupation and express resistance to the various violations
of Palestinian civil and human rights. |
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| KHALIL,
SAMIHA (1923-1999) |
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Born in Anabta, Tulkarem; in the 1940s
in Ashqalon; became refugee in 1948 (Gaza Strip); in 1952, left
Gaza by boat to Beirut and returned to the West Bank; charity worker
ever since; member of the PNC since 1965; alos since 1965, president
of the Women's Federation Society, El-Bireh, of the Union for Voluntary
Women's societies, and the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW);
founder/ president of In'ash al-Usra Society since 1967. Died on
the 26 of February, 1999.
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| KHATIB,
ANWAR (-1993) |
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Mayor of Jerusalem in the late 1950s;
member of the Arab Socialist Party and Jordan's government in the
early 1960s; Jordan's ambassador to Cairo in 1963 governor of Jerusalem
(1967-1970s).
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| MASRI,
HIKMAT (1906-1994) |
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Businessman from Nablus; military governor under Jordanian rule;
elected as a member of Jordanian parliament and its speaker in the
1950s; member of various Jordanian cabinets and the chamber of deputies
in the 1950s; elected to serve as PLO vice-president in 1964; lately
head of board of trustees of An-Najah University in Nablus. |
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| NASSER,
MUSA |
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Governor during the British Mandate; Minister of Foreign Affairs
in Jordan; founder of Bir Zeit University. |
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| NUSSEIBEH,
ANWAR (1913 -1986) |
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Nationalist and diplomat; from a sharifian landowning family from
Jerusalem; Land Officer of Jerusalem in 1936; secretary of the Cabinet
of the All-Palestine Government, established 1948 in Gaza; in 1950
elected Palestinian representative in the Jordanian parliament'a lower
house (Chamber of Deputies); September 1952, appointed to the Jordanian
Cabinet (Minister of Development and Reconstruction, later Minister
of Defence and Education); appointed to the Senate by King Hussein
in 1963; Jordan's ambassador to Britain; 1965 Governor of Jerusalem;
died on 24 November 1986 in Jerusalem. |
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| AL-SABA'A,
HASHEM (1905-1958) |
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Founder and chief editor of Al-Sarieh weekly newspaper; first
Palestinian journalist renowned for his sardonic approach to reporting. |
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| SHUQEIRI,
AHMAD
(1907-1980) |
Born in 1908 in Acre; studied at the Jerusalem Law School andthe
American University of Beirut; in the early 1930s opposition leader
in the north of Palestine; member of the Istiqlal Party; head of a
Palestinian propaganda office in the USA in 1945 (later in Jerusalem);
member of the Arab Higher Committee in 1946; member of the Syrian
delegation to the United Nations 1949-50; assistant secretary general
of the Arab League in charge of Palestinian affairs 1951-57; Saudi
Arabian Minister of State for UN affairs and Ambassador to the UN
1957-62; in 1963 appointed by the Arab League as Palestinian representative
to the Arab League (replacing Ahmad Hilmi who died); drew the first
draft of the Palestinian National Charter which became the basic law
for the establishment of the PLO; first President of the PLO (1964-67);
formed the Palestinian Liberation Army; died in 1980 in Amman; published
memoirs Forty Years of Arab and International Life (Beirut,
1969. In Arabic).
Also See: www.ahmad-alshukairy.org |
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