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Hasan Sidqi Dajani

Sector : Media, Journalists

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1879
  • Age: 136
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Journalist, lawyer and politician from Jerusalem; set up Muntada al-Adabi in 1919 and was its leader; also used a short-lived newspaper, "al-Quds ash-Sharif";among those who accepted the Balfour Declaration as an unchangeable fact but stipulated that Jewish immigration should be regulated; one of the founders of the Liberal Party (Hizb al-Ahrar) in 1930; member of the pro-mu'arada faction; secretary of the National Defense Party; legal counsel and head of the Arab Car Owner's & Driver's Association; declared a general strike of Arab transport facilities to protest against the British rule in 1936; was arrested by the British later that year; called for general strike in all sections of Palestine. He was murdered in 1938.

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