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- Country of residence: Palestine
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A Palestinian political historian, born in the city of Jaffa in 1939. He grew up in a family of militant fighters. He studied elementary school in the city of Jaffa, then moved to study in Amman and Lebanon. He lived through many political and militant events and issues during his childhood years, and joined the American University in Beirut to pursue his graduate studies after that. He joined the University of London and obtained a doctorate on the subject of (Arab-Palestinian resistance).
who joined the Arab Socialist Baath Party, and rose organizationally until he became a member of the Palestine National Office in 1960, and secretary of the Palestine Division and the Arab Liberation Front in Lebanon in 1961. He also became a member of the national leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, and was elected as a member. The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and a member of the National and Central Councils of the organization. During his national struggle, he participated in establishing the General Union of Palestine Students, worked as editor-in-chief of the Al-Raed Al-Arabi volume, and actively participated in leading the Palestinian national action in Lebanon in 1970 and 1975.
He had a very broad intellectual and political activity in all Arab countries, where he organized many seminars and workshops in civil, popular and union institutions, and gave national, cultural and historical lectures in Arab universities with the aim of clarifying the history of Palestine and the facts of the catastrophes that befell the Palestinian people and the Arab role in Palestine. The reality of the goals of the occupation of Palestine and the consequences of the occupation on the Arab region and the Arab future. He participated in dozens of intellectual conferences in European and Arab countries. He also planned and supervised many guerrilla operations for the Arab Liberation Front and the resistance factions, which were known as joint operations (patrols) within the Zionist security depth. , which blew up what was called the Zionist security depth.
He founded the Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing and chaired the editorship of the magazine (Arab Issues in 1974). He also chaired the editorship of (the Encyclopedia of Politics). The historian Kayyali has many intellectual sayings and aphorisms, and many published works, the most famous and important of which are the modern history of Palestine, the Palestinian resistance and the Arab struggle, Palestinian studies and readings, Expansionist Zionist ambitions, the kibbutz and collective farms in Israel, Arabs and current strategic issues, the National Charter and strategic thought, Europe, the Arabs and the world, Camp David and the impasse, European hesitation and the Palestinian issue, joint Arab action and current challenges, Arab national security is the answer, Arabs facing Israeli nuclear blackmail. The current crisis and its rationalization in Arab politics, the Arabs and the impasse at the summit, if you want peace, prepare for war, and many other topics.
He spent his life fighting for his nation, a stubborn defender of the rights of his people. He fought with a rifle, with his thought, and with his free and honest pen. He was a writer, writer, historian, and human being, and a fighter for national and national identity. He revealed many historical facts and uncovered the lies and false claims of the official Arab regime, imperialism, and global Zionism. He was assassinated at the peak of his intellectual, cultural and militant activity in Beirut on December 7, 1981.
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