Sector : Cultural Figures , Historians

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Emile Touma, born in March 16, 1919, was a Palestinian political historian, journalist and theorist.

Emile was born in Haifa to an Arab Orthodox family in 1919. He attended the Orthodox School in Haifa, then went to Jerusalem to the Zion College to complete his high school studies. He enrolled in Cambridge University but left it in 1939 when World War II started. In that year he joined the Palestinian communists. In 1944 Touma, Fuad Nassar and Emile Habibi established a new newspaper, Al-Ittihad, which published its first edition on 14 May 1944.

He was arrested in Lebanon in 1948. In 1949 he returned to Haifa and continued working as editor-in-chief of Al-Ittihad. In 1965 he joined the eastrization foundation in Moscow where he got his PhD in History for his dissertation on Arab nationalism, "The March of the Arab Peoples and the Problems of Arab Unity

In 1942, along with Dr. Haidar Abdel-Shafi, and the late Mukhlis Amer, Habibi and Mufid Nashashibi, Touma was a founder of the Palestinian National Liberation League. He wrote 15 books and hundreds of articles about politics, history and culture.
Died in Aug. 27, 1985.


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