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- Country of residence: Jordan
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Born in Jerusalem in 1903; studied Dentistry at the AUB; member and General Inspector of Al-Jihad Al-Muqaddes from 1937 and worked closely with the Grand Mufti, Haj Amin Husseini; attained several positions in the Jordanian Government and was elected member of the Jordanian Parliament from 1956-63; was imprisoned by the Jordanians on 21 April 1963, along with other MPs like Najib Al-Ahmad, Ishaq Al-Duzdar, and Yasser Amro, and sent to Al-Jafar detention center (following the declaration of the Charter for Arab Federation between Egypt, Syria and Iraq on 17 April and the resignation of PM Samir Al-Rifa’i on 20 April 1963); was released in Oct. 1963; was - together with Ahmad Shuqeiri - a member of the PLO founding committee in 1964; was detained in July 1967 and later expelled from Jerusalem to other parts of the OPT for signing a memorandum challenging the validity of Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem; later was appointed as Jordanian Minister of Economy and Head of the Chamber of Commerce of Amman; died in 1994.
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