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- Country of residence: Palestine
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1925-1973 Gaza, Palestinian poet and PLO leader. tho family is from Bir Zayt. Educated at AUB, worked as a teacher whilst studying law in Jerusalem.
After 1948 worked as a journalist: produced al-Ba‘th newspaper from Ramallah, then set up al-Jil al-Jadid, a literary periodical. Elected as Ba‘th member for Ramallah district in 1956 elections, but expelled from Parliament during the subsequent martial law period. Expelled from West Bank by Israel in 1967; became editor of PLO newspaper, Filastin al-Thawra, & member of PLO-EC from Feb69 where served as official spokesman and the head of National Guidance, exc for late70-Jul71, until his murder in Israel’s Beirut raid of Apr73. Only published one collection of poetry, Jirah Tughanni (1961), though others collected from his writings after his death.
Kamil al-Afghani: Independent Nablus.
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