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- Country of residence: Syria
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Born in Hebron in 1931; became a Ba‘ath Party member in the early 1950s; studied Law in Cairo in 1951; became a lawyer and member of the Jerusalem City Council from 1955; elected Secretary of the Ba‘ath Party in Jerusalem from 1956, but went underground in 1957; left to Syria where he became a leading Ba’athist; leader of the Palestinian National Front (PNF); editor of Al-Wihda newspaper (1958-60), Al-Sahafa (1961-62), and Al-Ba‘ath (1963-65); member of the committee that drafted the Syrian constitution in 1964; returned to Jerusalem in 1965; after 1967, became member of the Islamic Supreme Council and leader of the Higher Committee for National Guidance; deported for PNF membership in Dec. 1973; member of the PNC from 1973-1987 became head of the PNF in March 1974; member of the PLO Central Council from 1974-87; appointed to the PLO Exec. Committee in June 1974 (until 1984) and served as its official spokesman; became official spokesman of the PNF in 1984; died in Damascus in 1992.
Source: Passia.org
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