Important Palestinian and international characters who made difference towards the Palestinian Cause.
Nasser was born in Gaza in 1924 to a Palestinian Christian family. He was educated at Bir Zeit school (now Bir Zeit University). Then he studied political science at the American University... Read more
Muhammad al-Najjar ‘Abu Yusef’, who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad with his two companions Kamal Nasser, and Kamal Adwan in Beirut on this day in 1930, was born in the vi... Read more
Over 72 years ago this month, Abdel-Qader al-Husseini (1908-1948), a charismatic Palestinian military leader, was killed in the battle for al-Kastal, an Arab village west of Jerusalem. To ho... Read more
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini was born in Jerusalem. His father, Haj Tahir al-Husseini, married twice: Zainab, with whom he had two sons, Muhammad and Kamel, and Mahbuba, with whom he had eight... Read more
Ahmad al-Shuqairi was born in the town of Tibnin, in southern Lebanon, where his father, Shaykh As‘ad al-Shuqairi, was exiled during the Ottoman period. He had two half-brothers, Abd al-Afu... Read more
Ibrahim Tuqan was born in Nablus. His father was Abd al-Fattah Tuqan; his mother was Fawziyya Amin Asqalan. He had four brothers, Yusuf, Ahmad, Rahmi, and Nimr, and three sisters, Fadwa, Fat... Read more