Important Palestinian and international characters who made difference towards the Palestinian Cause.
Amin Fawzi Mahmoud al-Hindi was born in Gaza in 1940 and received his education there, then traveled to West Germany to study in 1960. His friend Abdullah al-Afrangi joined him, who offered... Read more
Mahmoud Darwish was born on 13 March 1941 in the village of Birwa (Acre district). At the end of 1947, and following clashes between the Arab inhabitants and the Zionists forces, he, along w... Read more
Born in Tantura, near Haifa, in 1936; became refugee with his family during the 1948 Nakba, ending up in Damascus; joined Damascus University to study Chemistry; was politically active with... Read more
Zuhair Mohsen (born in Tulkarem 1936 – assassinated on July 25, 1979 in Cannes) is a Palestinian politician and military leader, one of the leading Palestinian politicians, leader of t... Read more
Walid Ahmed Nimr Nasr Al-Hassan was born in Qalqilya on 12/1/1935 and completed his secondary education in 1953, then moved to Iraq where he completed a teacher training course in 1954. Afte... Read more
Mamdouh sabry was born in the village of Aqer, near Ramleh, in 1937, where he completed his primary and preparatory school, then completed his secondary education at Khalid Ibn Al-Walid Scho... Read more
Ghassan Kanafani was born in Acre. His father was Fayiz Kanafani, a lawyer, and his mother was A’isha al-Salim. He had four brothers, Ghazi, Marwan, Adnan and Hassan; and two sisters, Fayzah... Read more
Born in Haifa in 1937; became a refugee after the Nakba of 1948, ending up in the Yarmouk camp near Damascus; studied Engineering in the 1950-60s in Darmstadt and Munich, Germany; worked the... Read more
Adel Abdel Karim Yassin (1933 – 30 June 2017) is a prominent Palestinian politician, born in the town of Balaa in the Tulkarm Governorate. He is one of the five founders of the contemp... Read more
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was born in Bethlehem to Ibrahim and Mariam. He had two brothers, Yusuf and Isa, and one sister, Sawsan. He was married to Lami‘a al-Askari, daughter of the Iraqi notable... Read more