Sector : Cultural Figures , Writers

Personal Info

• Country of residence: Palestine

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1936

• Age: 89

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Abdullah Abdul Hadi Abdul Rahman Al-Hourani was born in the deserted village of Al-Masmiya (Masmiya Al-Hourani) in the occupied Ramla district in 1936. He is married and has four children. He studied primary school at the UNRWA school in Khan Yunis camp, and completed his secondary education at Al-Imam Al-Shafi’i and Khan Yunis schools in the Gaza Strip. He joined the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University, and obtained a BA in Arabic language from Damascus University in 1964. He worked as a principal of Ahmed Abdul Aziz School in Khan Yunis camp, and worked as a teacher in Dubai schools in the Emirates. He worked in the media field in Damascus, and was appointed director of Palestine Radio in Damascus, then director of the Syrian Radio and Television Corporation, then general director of the Media Institute in Damascus, and founded the National Center for Studies and Documentation in Gaza in 1997.  

Al-Hawrani joined the Arab Socialist Baath Party in the mid-1950s, and participated in national activities against the refugee settlement project in Sinai in 1955, and against the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip in 1956. He became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1969, and head of its political committee, and general director of the Department of Information and National Guidance of the Palestine Liberation Organization since 1973, and a member of the organization’s executive committee between 1984 and 1994. He founded the cultural department in the organization, supervised its activities, issued the Palestinian magazine Bayader and supervised it between 1988 and 1993, and led the Palestinian Popular Committee to Support the Iraqi People.

Al-Hawrani suffered in his life; he lived through the Nakba and displacement, was arrested by the occupation during the tripartite aggression on Egypt, was deported by the Egyptian authorities from the Gaza Strip in 1963, and was deported by the Emirati authorities from Dubai.   
He died in Jordan on  November 29, 2010.

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