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Faisal “Muhammad Rashad” Salman Hourani was born in the small, displaced village of Al-Masmiya in the occupied Gaza District on March 23, 1939. He is married with a daughter. He studied the basic stage in Al-Masmiya Al-Saghira School and in the schools of the cities of Gaza and Damascus, and he studied secondary school in Damascus schools, from which he obtained a high school diploma, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and psychology from the University of Damascus in 1964. He worked as editor of the weekly newspaper Al-Shabab in Algeria between the years (1964- 1965), then he moved to Damascus and became editor of the daily Al-Baath newspaper and director of its news department. He wrote programs for Syrian radio and television, and worked as editor-in-chief of “Al-Tala’i” magazine issued by the PLO until 1970. He was also a member of the editorial board of “Sawt” magazine. Palestine".
He belonged to the Baath Party in 1962, and participated in its political and cultural activities and remained there until 1968. Then he joined the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization and worked in its institutions. He was its deputy representative in Moscow between 1977-1978, and headed the Department of Information and Public Relations in the Organization’s Political Department. The Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1979, and he worked at the Research Center in Beirut in 1979. He later assumed the editorship of the magazine “Palestinian Affairs.” He represented the Palestinian Writers Union in the session of the Palestinian National Council held in Amman in 1984, and became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1988.
He resided in Vienna since 1989, and returned to Palestine temporarily in 1995 following the signing of the Oslo Accords.
Hourani wrote analytical political articles, and he has a number of studies and research that focus on the Palestinian issue, its history, and its files. He also wrote on literature and biography, and participated in a number of cultural, literary, and political conferences. He published a number of books, including: The Besieged (Novel, 1973), and Political Thought. The Palestinian 1964-1974: A Study of the Main Charters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1980), Fish of the Lajja (Novel, 1983), Abdel Nasser and the Question of Palestine - A Reading of His Ideas and Practices (1987), Joint Arab Action, Israel, Rejection and Acceptance 1944-1967 (1989), and Roots The Palestinian Rejection 1918-1948 (1990), and Paths of Exile (an autobiography in five parts) were published between the years (1994-2002) and were printed more than once. Al-Nosin (novel, 2004), Bir Al-Shom (novel, 2005), a critical reading of the history of Palestinian resistance (2017), Taqsim Mizmar Al-Hayy (2017), Palestinian-Jordanian relations during the era of Ahmed Al-Shuqairi (2019), Fresh Palestinian Papers (2020), and Faces In Crises (2020), Without Frills (2020), Fatima, Her Life and Death (2022), and Paula and Me (2022).
Hourani died in Geneva on May 12, 2022.
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