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From our Digital Projects | Biography | Khalil Sakakini was one of the most prominent educators in Palestine before the Nakba, and a liberal, enlightened intellectual who fought, within the framework of the national movement, religious segregation. The Nahda College which he founded in 1938 became one of the most outstanding nationalist and secular educational institutions in
From our Digital Projects | Biography | Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most internationally prominent Arab poets and one of the few whose poetry cannot be divorced from his life and his cause, a cause he helped to transform from a national to a universal human cause. He died in the United States on 9 August 2008, following a heart operation. Learn more about Mahmoud Darwish by
From our Digital Projects | Biography | Issam Abd al-Hadi was an active Palestinian pioneer of women's and political action. She was elected several times president of the General Union of Palestinian Women, and held the position of vice-president of the Women's International Democratic Federation from 1981 to 1992. Abd al-Hadi succeeded in conveying the justice of the
From our Digital Projects | Biography | 110 years ago, Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi passed away. He was a scholar, a diplomat and a political figure. As a prominent member of the Ottoman Parliament representing Jerusalem (1908-1912), he raised the issue of Zionism on several occasions during parliamentary sessions, warning against the dangers Jewish immigration and the continuing
From our Digital Projects | Biography | Ezzedine Kalak who as the PLO representative in Paris, had opened its Liaison and Media Bureau in 1975 with the agreement of the French government, was assassinated on 3 August 1978. Under his leadership, the bureau had quickly become a beehive constantly buzzing with work in support of the Palestinian cause. Learn more about Ezzedine