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Jaweed Al-Ghussein
Born in Ramleh in 1930; businessman who made his fortune in construction projects in the United Arab Emirates (where he ran the Cordoba Development Corporation for a while) before assuming his PLO duties; |
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Ya'cob Al-Ghussein
Born in 1899 in Ramleh; landowner; lawyer (graduated from Cambridge /U.K.); pro-Husseini; founder (1932) and president of the Arab Youth Congress Party, elected president of the First National Congress of Arab Youth, held in Jaffa, January 1932; |
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Assia Habash
Born in Jerusalem on 28 March 1936; holds a BA in Psychology and Education from the AUB (1958) and a PhD in Education from Bradford University, UK; |
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Claudette Habash
Ambassador for Peace for the Inter-Religious and International Federation for World Peace in 2003; received the International Voluntary Service Award from the Catholic University of San Antonio, Murcia, Spain, in 2004. |
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George Habash
Politician and guerilla leader; founder member and activist in the Arab National Movement; established the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1968; PFLP General Secretary from 1968 to 2000. |
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Sakher Habash
Born in Beit Dajan, near Jaffa, in 1939; turned to Palestinian national movement in the early 1960s and joined Fateh in 1962; was appointed Fateh regional command in Lebanon in Oct. 1972; member of the Fateh Central Committee since Aug. 1989; |
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Shafiq Habib
Born in Deir Hanna, Galilee. on 8 Dec. 1941; holds a Diploma in Education from Haifa University and a BA in Journalism and Public Relations from the British College in Jerusalem works in the field of accounting but enjoys writing poetry; |
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Emil Habibi
Born in Haifa in Aug. 1921; noted Palestinian-Israeli author, playwright, and journalist, who received several literary prizes; died in Haifa on 2 May 1996 (his tombstone reads - as he had requested: “Emile Habibi - Remained in Haifa”). |
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Amin Haddad
Born in Nablus on 13 Dec. 1956; worked as Assistant Researcher at the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem from 1980-82, while also studying at An-Najah University, Nablus, graduating with a BA in Accounting and Business Administration in 1982; |
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Wadi' Haddad
Born in Safad in 1927; went to Syria in 1961; took up commando action from 1963; was a founding member of the PFLP in 1967; died in East Germany of leukemia on 28 March 1978. |
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Abdul Aziz Haj Ahmad
Born in Salama/Jaffa,1943; studied Dentistry at Alexandria University: PA Minister of Transportation 1994-1996; serves since Aug. 1998 as Consultant for the PA Ministry of Health; appointed as an adviser to the PA President Mahmoud Abbas in 2005. |
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Samia Halabi
Born in Jerusalem on 12 Dec. 1936; MA in Painting from Michigan State University (1960) and MA in Fine Arts in Painting from Indiana University (1963); taught in American universities for 18 years, has exhibited her work internationally. |
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Usama Halabi
Born in Daliyat Al-Karmel in 1959; studied Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, graduating with an LLB in 1982 and an LLM in 1987; became a member of the Israeli Bar Association in 1987; |
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Rula Halawany
Born in Jerusalem in 1964; received a BA Advanced in Math and Photography from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1989; works as freelance photojournalist for the Snenska Dagbladet, Sweden and the US-based Middle East Report since 1990; |
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Mohammed Hallaj
PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida (1966); taught at the Florida’s Jacksonville University until 1970; Professor at Birzeit University from 1975-81, also serving as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and later as Vice-Pres. of the university; |
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Mustafa Hallaj
Born in Salame, Jaffa, in 1938; was also known as Sheikh Al-Fannanin (‘The Master of Artists’); died in Dec. 2002 in Damascus, while trying to rescue his works from a fire that destroyed his studio; was buried in Al-Yarmouk Refugee Camp, Damascus. |
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Osman Hallak
Born in Jerusalem on 5 May 1935; did his Graduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1963-64; established a daily newspaper “An-Nahar” on 1986-1995 (May); |
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Jamil Hamad
Co-founder with Yousef Nasser, and editor of Al-Fajr daily newspaper from 1972-1974; from 1984, received the Overseas Press Club Award in 1985; was joint winner of the Henry R. Luce Award for reporting on the battle of Jenin in April 2002. |
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Abdel-Fattah Hamayel
Imprisoned for 17 years in Israeli jails; released in a prisoner exchange in 1985 but re-imprisoned in 1990 and deported to Jordan in 1992; Minister of State without portfolio in the cabinet of PM Mahmoud Abbas on 30 April 2003 (until Oct. 2003). |
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Abdul-Jawad Saleh Hamayel
Born in Al-Bireh on 3 Dec. 1931; studied Economics at the AUC, graduating with a BA in 1955; was elected to the PLC as an independent in the Ramallah district in the Jan. 1996 elections; was appointed PA Minister of Agriculture for two years. |
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Saleh Abdul-Jawad Hamayel
Born in Al-Bireh in 1952; PhD (1986) in Political Science from Paris X-Nanterre University; works as Professor of History and Political Science at Birzeit University since 1981; served as Director of Birzeit’s Research Center from 1994-97; |
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Rami Hamdallah
PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Lancaster, UK, in 1988; Dean of the Faculty of Arts (1992-95); Vice-Pres. of the Palestinian Scientific Academy; Chairman of the Palestinian Stock Exchange Board; |
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Osama Hamdan
Born in 1965; Hamas representative to Lebanon; participated in the Cairo dialogue between Palestinian factions in 2004 and served as Hamas’ spokesperson at the talks; member of the Hamas politburo. |
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Jamil Hammami
Researcher at the Center for Islamic Research at Al-Quds University from 1997-2003, where he also worked as a lecturer and pursued his MA in Islamic Studies, graduating 2003; coordinator of the Religious Studies Unit at PASSIA since 1998; |
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Rema Hammami
PhD in Cultural Anthropology, which she received from Temple University in Aug. 1994; worked as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Birzeit University from 1994-96, then became Research Coordinator of the MA Program in Gender, |
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Mahmoud Hamshari
PLO leader; moved to France in the 1960s, serving as Fateh representative; was bombed in his house in Paris on 8 Dec. 1972 by the Israeli Mossad died of his injuries a month later on 9 Jan. 1973. |
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Yahya Hamuda
Chairman of the PLO in 24 Dec. 1967, when Ahmed Shuqeiri resigned from the post; his mandate was extended by the 4th PNC in Cairo in July 1968; attempted unsuccessfully to unite the PLO and the guerrilla groups; |
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Ghazi Hanania
Board Member of the Arab Care Medical Services since 1990; Chairman of the Board of the Union of Ramallah People since 1994; head of the Board of Trustees of the Ramallah Regional Emergency and Trauma Center since 2001. |
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Akram Haniyeh
Born in Ramallah in 1953; organizer for PLO activities in the West Bank during the 1970s/early 1980s; became a political advisor to Arafat as well as a member of final status talks team; Board of Trustees member of An-Najah University; |
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Atallah Hanna
MA in Theology from Thessalonica University in 1991; was arrested from his home in the Old City of Jerusalem; was on Dec. 2004 awarded the Jerusalem Prize by the PA Ministry of Culture as part of the Palestine Cultural Prizes of 2000; |
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Hilmi Hanoun
BA in Commerce in 1934; became member of the first PNC in 1964; was elected mayor of Tulkarem on 27 Oct. 1963 and re-elected on 23 April 1972; served as Board Director of Al-Fajr newspaper in Jerusalem; |
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Sara Hanoun
Born in Tulkarem in 1924; contributed in transforming the Women’s Coalition Club into the Red Crescent Society after 1955; contributed in the organizing of a number of centers related to women, literacy and other social services in the 1950s; |
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Ahmad Harb
PhD in Comparative and English Literature from the University of Iowa, USA, in 1986; became an Associate Professor of English Literature at Birzeit University; later served as Dean at the university’s of the Faculty of Arts; |
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Bilal al Hassan
Born in Haifa in 1944; bother of Hani Al-Hassan; was member of the PLO team that negotiated with a Lebanese delegation in Egypt the ‘Cairo Agreement’ in Nov. 1969, lives in France and works as an analyst and journalist, among others for Al-Hayat. |
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Hani al Hassan
PLO leader; studied engineering in the 1950-60s in Darmstadt and Munich, Germany; joined Fateh in 1963 and committed his group to it; Arafat's chief political adviser on day-to-day matters, his special envoy and crisis manager. |
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Khaled Al Hassan
Fateh member since 1963; leader of the first Fateh Central Committee; named to the PLO Executive Committee in 1968; chairman of the PNC's Foreign Relations Committee (first PLO 'foreign minister' and main architect of PLO foreign policy. |
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Manuel Hassassian
PhD in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati, USA, in 1986; Associate Professor - University of Bethlehem (1991-98); appointed as ambassador, Head of the Palestinian General Delegation to the United Kingdom in late 2005. |
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Nayef Hawatmeh
Member of Habash's PFLP in early years, but split and formed the leftist Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP; later known as DFLP) in 1968; chairman and main representative of the DFLP. |
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Jamil Hilal
BA in Sociology and Philosophy from the University of Hull, UK, in 1963, and an M.Lit. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Durham, UK, in 1969; was an active DFLP member from 1973-1991; |
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Jamal Al Hindi
PLC member (Fateh) in the Jenin district in the 1996 elections; served as head of the PLC’s Refugee Affairs Committee; member of the General Assembly of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (until 24 Sept. 2004). |
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Mohammed Hourani
MA in Sociology-Bulgaria; member of the Fateh Higher Committee in the West Bank; was elected PLC member (Fateh) for the Hebron District in the Jan. 1996 elections; serves as member of its Legal and Political Committees; |
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Shafiq Al Hout
Founding member and leading figure of the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF), which established the Abtal Al-Awda (Heroes of the Return) group in the 1960s and circulated the bulletin Tariq Al-Awda (Path of Return); |
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Samir Huleileh
MA in Economics from the AUB, Lebanon, in 1983; Board member of the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ) in Bethlehem since 1990; was appointed Secretary of the Palestinian cabinet formed in Feb. 2005. |
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Sheikh Mohammed Hussein
BA in Islamic Shari’a from the University of Jordan in Amman in 1973; Director and preacher (Khatib) of Al-Aqsa Mosque since 1982; currently studies towards an MA in Islamic Studies at Al-Quds University, Jerusalem. |
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Abdal-Qader Al Husseini
Born in 1907 in Jerusalem; Son of Musa Qassem (Pasha) al-Husseini; graduate in chemistry at the American University of Cairo; leader of the Palestinian resistance during the Great Revolt of 1936-39; killed in a counter attack at Qastel on 1948. |
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Adnan Al Husseini
BA in Architecture from Ein Shams University, Egypt, in 1970; Board of Trustees member of Al-Quds University since 1993; Board of Trustees member of the Faculty of Qur’an & Islamic Studies at Al-Quds University since 1995; |
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Faisal Al Husseini
Born on 17 July 1940 in Baghdad, Iraq, to a Muslim Palestinian notable family; son of legendary Palestinian guerilla leader Abdel Qader Al Husseini, who died during the battle for Jerusalem on 8 April 1948; PLO representative to Jerusalem. |
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Haj-Amin Al Husseini
Head of the First Palestinian Delegation to London in 1921; appointed president of the first Supreme Muslim Council in March 1922 (until 1937); elected president of the Arab Higher Committee on April 25, 1936; |
