Sector : Public Figures, Public Figures

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• Country of residence: Palestine

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1906

• Age: 110

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Born in Jerusalem in 1906; studied Medicine in Germany (1922-23), Egypt (1924-25), and Geneva (1925-29); then specialized in Ophthalmology in London; became a leftist activist and joined the Palestine Communist Party; was arrested by the British for his involvement in the 1936 General Strike and imprisoned for six months; became a member of the Arab Higher Committee in 1946 and was appointed to the Palestinian delegation to the UN (though the US refused him entry); in 1948, was briefly detained by the Egyptian authorities in Gaza; has published a book on Sixty-Six Years with the Palestinian National Movement in 1982; died in 1983.


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