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Ishaq Al-Badri (1943-) is a Palestinian writer and journalist , born in the Katamon neighborhood in Jerusalem to a family whose roots in the city go back to the eleventh century AD, and which was prominent for its scientific role, as his grandfather Musa Al-Badri was a judge during the Ottoman Empire . He obtained a Bachelor of Laws from Cairo University in 1968, and the Palestinian Ministry of Culture chose him as the Cultural Personality of the Year for the year 2019, by announcement from Minister Ihab Bseiso on the occasion of Jerusalem as the permanent capital of Arab and Islamic culture.
His life
He witnessed the fiercest battles in the Qatun neighborhood in Jerusalem between the Arabs and the Zionists when he was five years old in 1948. He immigrated with his family to Egypt and then returned to settle in the eastern part of the Holy City.
He participated in demonstrations against the Baghdad Pact as a child . His political conscience began to take shape with the nationalization of the Suez Canal and the start of the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, to determine his intellectual direction, seeking knowledge and a deeper understanding of what was happening around him in the world that had forgotten his home in the Qatoun neighborhood. His mother was his first guide and teacher, and the radio , especially Sawt al-Arab, was his second guide. He followed newspapers and libraries to acquire a diverse, progressive, and enlightened culture. He was interested in reading all books, Western and Eastern, biographies, ideas, ideologies, and even stories and literary novels .
He studied in the largest schools and colleges in Jerusalem in Al-Omariya and Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, then at the Coptic Antonine College, and obtained his high school diploma in 1963. He traveled to Cairo to complete his law studies , and there he learned about the political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual ideas of the July Revolution and closely followed the High Dam construction project. He was informed of the great development that Egypt was witnessing in the field of culture and in the movement of writing, translation and publishing. He followed the movement of cultural development and advancement in the fields of arts, theater and the film industry when the cultural movement was on an upward trajectory and Cairo was a beacon of culture and thought in the sixties of the twentieth century.
He returned from Cairo in 1969. He is married to Mrs. Hidaya Al-Kazemi, head of the Arab Women's Union Association in Jerusalem and the father of journalist and media figure Ahmed Al-Badri, journalist and media figure Guevara Al-Badri and lawyer Arwa Al-Badri.
His professional life
He joined the Jordanian Bar Association as a trainee lawyer and obtained a law license from it. He joined the strike declared by the striking lawyers after the Israeli occupation of the West Bank (Jerusalem specifically) in June 1967, the annexation of Jerusalem, the expulsion of the Arab judicial authority from the city, and the imposition of Israeli laws. In 1970, he began working in journalism, where he worked for Al-Quds newspaper , then worked as editor-in-chief of Al-Fajr newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Palestine Liberation Organization .
He was interested in theatrical work and founded, with his late colleague Atiya Abu Ramila, a theatrical troupe called the Experimental Theatre, which presented Tawfiq Al-Hakim’s play “Soft Hands” and other theatrical works.
In 1979, he worked with lawyer Zuhair Al-Rayes and Faisal Al-Husseini , and together the three of them developed the basic ideas and broad outlines for establishing a center for studies, research and documentation in the city of Jerusalem, which later led to the establishment of the Arab Studies Association, of which he was the general director.
He supervised the establishment of a library specializing in topics related to Palestine, its land, people, and cause, and in the affairs and issues of the Arab homeland and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was responsible for supervising the establishment of a section for Palestinian documents, another section for press information, a section for personalities, and a section for photos, to serve as sources and references for researchers and scholars. He encouraged researchers and scholars to publish their research and studies, and dozens of books and publications were issued, translated, printed, and published.
Since its establishment, the association and its employees have been subjected to persecution and arrest by the Israeli authorities due to their national activities. Following the outbreak of the first intifada in 1987, harassment increased and reached the point of closing it for four years on charges of posing a threat to Israeli security.
He contributed to the establishment of the Orient House with Faisal Husseini to be the director of the headquarters of the Palestinian delegation for peace negotiations, which benefited from the treasure trove of information and research, so that after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the Orient House became the political and reference address for the people of Jerusalem in various fields. After the death of Faisal Husseini, the Israeli authorities closed the Orient House building, the Arab Studies Society, and other Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem. Al-Badri continued his mission as the Director General of the Arab Studies Society, which moved to work on the outskirts of the city of Jerusalem.
In 2002, he was chosen as a founding member of the Faisal Al-Husseini Foundation and a member of its board of directors more than once, and he did not stop working there even after Al-Husseini’s death.
His achievements
In 2018, he and his colleague Qasim Abu Harb published an important book that took nearly five years to complete, entitled “The Urban Landscape in the City of Jerusalem,” which includes the urban landmarks in the Holy City.
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