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75 Palestinian Personalities H PALESTINIAN PERSONALITIES G H Network and elected member of its Steering Committee since 1995; Dean of Graduate Studies at Birzeit University since 1996; Board Mem- ber of the Palestinian Hydrology Group from 1996-2000; Board Mem- ber of the Teacher’s Creativity Center in Ramallah from 1997-2000; edi- tor-in-chief of Parliamentary Horizons, an Arabic monthly documentary newsletter on the work of the PLC, since 1997; co-founder and member H of the Program Council of the Graduates’ Program in Democracy and Human Rights at Birzeit University since 1998; has written many ar- ticles and essays and (co-)edited several books, incl. After Oslo: New HABASH, ASIA (1936-) Realities, Old Problems (London: Pluto Press, 1998) and State Forma- tion in Palestine (London: Routledge, 2004). Born in Jerusalem on 28 March 1936; holds a BA in Psychology and Education from the AUB (1958) and a PhD in Education from Bradford University, UK; worked as GIACAMAN, RITA (1950-) an instructor at the UNRWA Men’s Teacher Training Center from 1960-72, then as As- Born in Bethlehem on 21 March 1950; sistant Principal (1972-75) and Principal of worked as a teaching and research as- the UNRWA Women’s Training Center, Ra- sistant at the University of California, San mallah (1975-83); co-founder of the Arab Francisco Medical Center, from 1973-77; Thought Forum, Jerusalem, from 1976-82; co-founder of the Arab Stud- graduated from that University with a PhD ies Society, Jerusalem, since 1979; Deputy-Chairperson of the National H in Clinical Pharmacy in 1977; worked as a Mental Health Society from 1982; worked as a research coordinator at Clinician and tutor at the Presbyterian Hos- the Arab Thought Forum from 1983-85; since 1985, Project Director of pital Medical Centre, San Francisco, Cali- the Early Childhood Resource Center in Jerusalem; Board of Trustees fornia, from 1977-78; returned to the West member of the Palestinian Counseling Center (1987-91) and the Tamer Bank and became Assistant Professor at Institute for Community Education, Ramallah (1990s). the Biology Dept. at Birzeit University from 1978-1984; continued her studies and received an MPhil in Sociology/ Social Policy with a focus on health and women from the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, in 1985; founding member and research HABASH, GEORGE (AL-HAKIM) (1925-) coordinator of the Community Health Dept. at Birzeit University from 1985-1987, and since 1988 its Director; since 1993, founding member Born in Lydda on 26 Aug. 1925 to a Palestin- and lecturer/researcher at the Program of Women’s Studies at Birzeit ian Greek Orthodox family; won a scholar- University; Steering Committee member of the UK-based World Univer- ship and studied Medicine at the AUB from sity Services Training Program for Palestinian Women; member of the 1944-1951; witnessed the mass expulsion UNDP Committee for the Advancement of Women in Palestinian Soci- from Lydda after the city’s fall on 14 July ety; conducted a variety of feasibility studies and evaluations of health 1948; formed there the ‘Organization to Op- and social/developmental projects in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egypt pose Political Settlement with Israel’, and be- and Yemen; has written extensively on health issues and co-authored came founding member of the ANM in 1951 several books, incl. Psychosocial/ Mental Health Care in the Occupied with Wadie Haddad, a fellow Palestinian, Palestinian Territories: the Embryonic System (Institute of Community and Hani Al-Hindi, a Syrian; was its repre- and Public Health in cooperation with the Center for Continuing Educa- sentative on the Exec. Committee of the National Conference; Pan- tion, Birzeit University, 2004). Arabist and Nasser-supporter in early years; moved to Jordan in 1956, was arrested for political activities, left for Damascus, was expelled in 1963 and relocated in Lebanon; called for fighting the national struggle for Palestine in a united Arab struggle; formed ‘Palestinian Chapters’ of the ANM in May 1964 to organize cells to carry out armed struggle against Israel; after the War of 1967, turned leftwards in his political thinking, established the PFLP in Dec. 1967, and became its Sec.-Gen.; led a ‘rejectionist’ front within the PLO after the Oct. 1973 War, when the PLO seemed to be ready for a possible accommodation with Is- rael; staged a reconciliation with Yasser Arafat in 1979, and joined with the PFLP the PLO Exec. Committee in 1981; left to Damascus in 1982 (where he stayed until moving to Amman due to his deteriorating health in 1992); led a National Salvation Front, in protest at the PLO’s short-lived consensus with Jordan; rejoined the PLO at the 1987 PNC conference, after the PLO-Jordan alliance had collapsed; at the PNC in Nov. 1988, gave approval to the Algiers Declaration (endorsing a two- state option and renouncing terrorism); was highly critical of the PFLP’s 2nd generation leadership at the 5th Congress in Feb. 1993; opposed to the Oslo Accords; resigned as Sec.-Gen. in April 2000 after 33 years and established a research center in Amman, Jordan. 75 PALESTINIAN PERSONALITIES H HABASH, SAKHR (ABU NIZAR) (1939-) but enjoys writing poetry; was arrested by the Israeli authorities under charges that his poem collection Return to the Future (1990) praised Born in Beit Dajan, near Jaffa, in 1939; be- the revolutionary aspect of the Intifada; in 1992, he was sentenced to came refugee in the Nakba of 1948, ending three years though it was soon after overturned into an eight-month up first in Ramallah, then in Balata Refugee “conditional sentence,” a three-year probationary period, and a fine for Camp near Nablus; joined the Ba‘athists in violating Israel’s 1949 “Anti-terror Act”; in 1993, he was acquitted of 1952; studied Geology and Water Resources those charges by a district court on appeal, and the High Court has at Cairo’s Ein Shams University from 1958; refused to review the case afterwards; published 15 poetry collections turned to the Palestinian national movement between 1971 and 2005. in the early 1960s and joined Fateh in 1962, when he became responsible for recruitment; was appointed Fateh regional command in Lebanon in Oct. 1972; mem- ber of the Fateh Central Committee since Aug. 1989. HABIBI, EMILE (1921-1996) Born in Haifa in Aug. 1921 into a Palestin- ian Protestant family; studied in Haifa and HABASH, CLAUDETTE Acre; worked in Haifa’s oil refinery as a con- Born in Jerusalem; completed the London struction worker, then as radio announcer Matriculation at the Notre Dame de SIon in the Palestinian Broadcasting Service in School in Jerusalem in 1965; graduated from Jerusalem (1941-43); joined the Palestinian Communist Party in 1940 and became one H the Beirut College for Women with a BA in Social Work in 1960; completed a one-year of its leaders, operating underground dur- practical training course in Medical Social ing the British Mandate in the 1940s; one Work at the American University Hospital in of the founders of the National Liberation Beirut in 1960; was involved with the YWCA League (Usbat Al-Taharrur Al-Watani) in as Chairperson of the Women’s Council from 1943, along with Haidar Abdel Shafi, Mukhlis Amer, Emil Tuma and 1971-75, then as National Board member (1978-84) and Pres. (1989-93); Mufid Nashashibi; editor of Al-Mihmaz newspaper; joined the Israeli served as Vice-Pres. of the Board of Directors of Terra Sancta Club in Communist Party after the 1940s and became chief editor of its paper Jerusalem from 1973-80; was a member of the Parent/Teacher Associa- Al-Ittihad; represented the party in the Knesset for 19 years from 1953- tion at De La Salle School, Jerusalem, from 1975-78; Manager of Ayoub 72 (since 1965 for Rakah which emerged from the Israeli Communist Trading Agency from 1978-84; serves as Sec.-Gen. of Caritas Jerusalem Party); edited Al-Ittihad that served as the Arabic mouthpiece for the and member of several working groups, commissions and committees of party in the 1970s; began writing short stories in the 1960s; resigned Caritas Internationalis since 1991; member of several councils and del- from the Knesset in 1972 to write his novel, The Secret Life of Saeed, egations of the Holy See; member of Pontificum Consilium - Cor Unum the Pessoptimist (Arabic, 1974; English, 1982), depicting the life and for- in 1990-94 and 1995-99, and of the Holy See Delegation to the UN Con- tunes of an Arab citizen of the state of Israel; proponent of Arab-Israeli ference on Women, Beijing, China, in 1995; also member of the Work- coexistence; noted Palestinian-Israeli author, playwright, and journalist, ing Group on Refugees, Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) since who received several literary prizes, incl. the top PLO literary honor, 1992, member of the Central Committee of the Dept. of Service to Pal- Jerusalem Prize (1990), and the Israel Prize (1992); left Rakah in 1991 estinian Refugees (DSPR) since 1992, serving as its Chairperson from over a position the party adopted vis-à-vis Soviet leader Gorbachev; es- 2001-04; Council member of the International Catholic Migration Com- tablished the Arabesque House Publishing Company in Haifa the same mission (ICMC), Geneva, since 1995; was a member of the regional com- year; in 1995, produced the monthly literary journal Masharif; authored mission of Caritas MONA (Middle East and North Africa) from 1995-99; several renown books, incl. Kufr Qassem - The Massacre and the Poli- Board of Trustees member of Bethlehem University since 1997; served tics (Haifa, 1976), Ikhtiyyeh (1985), The Tale of Saraya, the Daughter for two consecutive terms as Pres. of Caritas for the MONA region since of the Ogre (Arabic, 1991), as well as plays, such as Lakka’ ben Lakka’ 1999; Vice-Pres.
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