Sector : Media, Directors

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• Country of residence: Jordan

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1924

• Age: 92

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Born in Jaffa in 1924; received a degree in Media from the AUB; returned to Jaffa and worked as a journalist for Al-Difa’ (owned by Ibrahim Shanti) (until his resignation in 1953); founded Al-Jihad newspaper in Jerusalem (1951) (together with Salim Sharif and Mahmoud Yaish); following a Jordanian law to limit the number of daily newspapers, Al-Jihad and Al-Difa’ were joined together to form the Jerusalem daily, Al-Quds, on 21 March 1967 (closed during the War of 1967 and reopened on 19 Nov. 1968), of which he was chief editor and owner until his death on 28 March 2005.


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