Birth: NULL/NULL/1910 Death:NULL/NULL/1927
Born in Jaffa in 1910; was educated at the Jaffa Government School and An-Najah National School; studied Political Science at the AUB, graduating in 1932; returned to Jaffa and joined Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiyyeh newspaper, founded by Suleiman Taji Faruqi; founded Ad-Difa’ (The Defense) newspaper in 1934, which became a central platform for free speech and was closed by the British several times; was arrested by the British in 1936 for his role in establishing the Palestinian National Guard during the Arab Revolt; was exiled to Cairo by the newly established Israeli state in 1948, while his paper in Jaffa was closed down; in 1949, founded Cairo newspaper in Egypt with Assad Daqher; helped founding other papers in Cairo and Jordan while in exile; returned to Palestine in 1950; worked briefly as the Chairman of the Arab Bank, a post afforded to him by his friend Abdul Hamid Shuman, but then left to resume publication of Ad-Difa’ from Jerusalem; after 1967, relocated his paper to Amman; was elected the first Pres. of the Jordanian Journalists’ Association; was known for his journalistic editorials which reflected the major concerns of the Palestinian struggle for independence; wrote an article offending the Jordanian govt., which led to the permanent closure of Ad-Difa’s offices in Amman by an order of then-PM Wasfi At-Tal; died in 1979.
