Birth: NULL/NULL/1946 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jerusalem in 1946; graduated from the Friends’ Boys School in Ramallah in 1964; PNC member from 1969-1972; served as Vice-Pres. for the Executive Committee of GUPS and Editor of the GUPS’s Mount of Olives Magazine (1969-1972); enrolled at the AUB and graduated with a BA (1972) and MA (1974), majoring in Mass Communications; served as Pres. of the Student Council at the AUB from 1972-73; received another MA in Social Sciences from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA, in 1975, a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, in 1981, and a PhD in Government and International Economics from the University of Texas, Austin-Texas, in 1984; co-owner of the Mediagen Company and Monday Morning Magazine, Beirut, Lebanon; founder, Chairman of the Board, and General Manager of the Jordan Radiators Manufacturing Company in Amman from 1985-1990; founder and Chairman of the Dept. of Political Science and Diplomatic Studies at the Applied Science University in Amman from 1990-95; Chief Technical Advisor, founder and Director of the National Institute for Public Administration at UNDP/PAPP from 1995-97; Director of the Technical Assistance and Training Department of PECDAR from 1998-2004; Director of PECDAR’s National Institute for Administration in 2004; founder and Director of the Jerusalem Studies and Research Institute; founder and Director of the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) Palestine Agency from 2000-2004; founder and Director of the American Studies Institute at Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, since 2001; acted as Senior Consultant to the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC), Arthur Andersen, the Orient House, and Seeds of Peace; active member in the Palestinian peace civil society; published numerous articles and books in the fields of governance, political science, economics, development and literature, incl. in English, Economic Sanctions: Ideals and Experiences (1983), Economic Diplomacy: Embargo Leverage and World Politics (1985), The Strategy of Palestinian Monetary Policy (2001), and in Arabic, Politics: Theories And Concepts (1986) and Biblographia Al-Quds (Jerusalem Bibliography of Books – 2003); taught in a number of universities in the US, Jordan and Palestine, incl. University of South Carolina, University of Texas, University of Applied Science, and Al-Quds University.
