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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Issa Rufa Al-Sifri (1949-1894) Palestinian historian, journalist and writer.
Origin and career
Al-Sefri was born in the city of Ramla, where he received his primary education, and completed the rest of his studies in the city of Jaffa. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a teacher in public schools before devoting himself to journalistic work in the Palestine newspaper for its companions, Issa Al-Issa, and then as an editor for it. He used the newspaper as a platform to express his expressions. His political views against Zionist policies, in addition to warning of the repercussions of the Zionist plans at the time. Then he moved to establish his own library and printing press in Jaffa, which occupied a space in the seminars of writers, until the British authorities arrested him in Al-Mazraa prison in Akka for three months.
After the Nakba occurred in 1948, Al-Sifri moved from the city of Jaffa to the city of Al-Salt in Jordan, where he stayed for a whole year, then moved to the Jordanian city of Amman, to be the city where he died in 1949 due to a heart attack.
his business
A collection of articles from prose poetry in literature, the homeland and society «My Message» (1937)
The book “The Wonders of Numbers” (1940)
The book “The Victorious Arabs in Jahiliyyah and Islam” (1943)
The book “Blood and Tears” (1947)
The Three Promises in the History of Palestine Battalion (1947)
The book “Arab Palestine between the Mandate and Zionism” (1937): which is considered one of his most important publications, and it consists of two books in one volume: the first book includes the history of the Arab-Palestinian issue since the British occupation of Palestine in 1917 until the outbreak of the Great April Revolution in 1936, and the second book includes a history The revolution, its causes, developments, and results until the advent of the Royal Commission: a general record of the Palestinian cause in twenty years.
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