Birth: 1/1/1954 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Haifa in 1945; studied in Beirut and graduated with a BA in Law and one in Philosophy; holds a PhD in Islamic Studies and one in Political Science from Paris University; editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut from 1974-79; went as research fellow to the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, in 1979-80; became chairman of the Research Dept. of the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut from 1980-84; left Lebanon for Paris in 1984 to become a Professor of International Relations and Middle Eastern Politics at the Sorbonne University and a member of the editorial committee of the Revue d’Etudes Palestiniennes; acted as advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team from the 1991 Madrid conference until Feb. 1994; moved to Palestine in Sept. 1994 to help establish the Birzeit Institute of Law, whose Director he became (until 2000); in Feb. 1996, was appointed by Pres. Yasser Arafat to the committee that was to draft a constitution for the PA; returned to France and worked as Professor of International Relations at the Universities of Paris and Versailles; worked as a UNDP technical assistant on Palestinian judicial reform from Sept. 2004-March 2005, when he was appointed the Secretary of the Steering Committee for the development of the judiciary; has written and edited many articles and books in Arabic, French, and English; publications include: L’autorité dans la pensée musulmane (Paris, 1975), Palestine and the Gulf (Beirut, 1982), Les Palestiniens de l’intérieur (Paris, 1989), The Palestinian-Israeli Peace Negotiations: An Overview and Assessment (Washington, DC, 1993), and Beyond Alliance: Israel in US Foreign Policy (New York 1994.
