Landowner and industrialist of Nablus; religious activist; in later stage of his life a supporter of the Palestinian Defense Party; build the famous mosque in Nablus; a soup factory carries his name.

Leader from Gaza; member of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS); helped to set up Fateh in the late 1950s; active role in setting up organisations similar to Fateh in Saudi Arabia and Qatar; school teacher; commander of Al-Assifa, Fateh's military arm; named to the PLO Executive Committee in 1968; in early years the first military commander of Fateh; leader and operational head of Black September Organization (operated 1970-74); killed by an Israeli raid in Beirut on April 10, 1973.

Born in 1936 in Nablus. He received his MA degree in international law and a diploma in economics. He also studied at the Cairo University and Ein Shams University in Egypt. Appointed Minister of Agriculture in the Jordanian Government. Also a political attaché to the League of Arab States. Minister of Economy in Amman before being appointed Ambassador of Jordan to Britain.

It was worth noting at the outset that after 1936, a rift happened between Raghib al-Nashashibi and Fakhri. This rift was not visible. In the ranks of "opposition", there were two, sharp-witted and intelligent persons: As'ad al-Shuqairi and Fakhri al-Nashashibi. However, the two of them did not see eye to eye on all matters, sometimes, they seemed poles apart. Fakhri was a dynamic force. He made it a point to intercede on behalf of the people with the various government departments and officials. To Fakhri "homeland" meant his own interest only. On this point the opposition leaders differed with him. One of the ill-fated and miscalculated adventures of Fakhri was the issue of the faked letters he concoted on behalf of Prince Shakib Arsalan. With the outbreaks of WWII , Fakhri glimpsed another opportunity for a new adventure that ended him up in Baghdad where he was assassinated.

Born in 1882 in Jerusalem; recevied his education in Beirut, after WW I a member and leading figure of the Muntada al-Adabi leadership; described as a "walking Arabic dictionary"; author of Modern Science and Us; At the onset of the British Mandate he became an inspector in the Education Department. He held this position for 9 years. He spent a large part of his life writing books, articles and letters. He became a member of the Arab Scientific Society in Damascus. Among his most prominent friends were the Poet Laureate Ahmad Shawqi in Egypt and ar-Rahbani in Lebanon. He wrote a number of school textbooks. Among his most famous books is " True Islam". Died on January 18, 1948 in Cairo.

Born in 1881; public figure under the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate and the Jordanian administration; graduated from engineering Istanbul University and became Jerusalem's District Engineer; lifetime opposition leader against the Husseini family; in 1914, elected to the Ottoman parliament and Jerusalem representative in the Ottoman parliament during World War I; head of the Ottoman department of Public Works; member of the All-Syrian Congress in 1919; returned and replaced Musa Qassem (Pasha) al-Husseini as mayor of Jerusalem (1920-34); leading figure of the Palestine Arab National party, founded in 1923; member of the Palestinian Delegation to the U.K., March 1930; founder (2 Dec. 1934) and leader of the National Defense party; its representative in the Arab Higher Committee (1936); resigned from the Arab Higher Committee in preparation to accept partition. Politically inactive in the 1940s; in August 1949 appointed head of the new Jordanian ministry for refugees and rehabilitation; in Sept. 1949 appointed first Governor-General for Arab Palestine; in 1950 Jordanian Minister of Agriculture and later of Transport; appointed as custodian of the Holy Places of Jerusalem with cabinet rank; died in January 1951.

Born in 1865 in Ein Einub, Lebanon; worked as pharmacist for a hospital in Tiberias; founder and editor of al-Karmil, the first Palestinian anti-Zionist weekly newspaper in Arabic which appeared in Haifa in 1909 warning against land sales to Jews and Zionist colonial activities in Palestine; behind the foundation of an association in Haifa with the aim of preventing the implementation of Zionism and persuading the government to prohibit land sales to Jews at the end of 1910; published in 1911 the first book in Arabic on Zionism, entitled Zionism: Its History, Objective and Importance in which he described Zionism as a racist movement that aims to replace the Palestinians in the Holy Land; favored the program of decentralization of Palestine but maintained his Ottoman loyalty all his life coupled with Palestinian patriotism; died on December 28, 1947.

Writer; edited the militant newspaper Al-Jil al-Jadid (The New Era) in the 1960s; PLO spokesman in Beirut; killed by an Israeli raid in Beirut on April 10, 1973.

Governor during the British Mandate; Minister of Foreign Affairs in Jordan; founder of Bir Zeit University.

Chaiman of Arab Cement Company, elected and deposed deputy Mayor of Hebron (1976-1983). Appointed mayor of Hebron by the PA in 1994.

An Intellectual. He worked in journalism, education and in Arab and Jordanian politics. He became a member of the Jordanian Parliament. He worked for the Arab Broadcasting in Jerusalem as of 1940, and he translated from English into Arabic. He died in Damascus in 1958.

Nationalist and diplomat; from a sharifian landowning family from Jerusalem; Land Officer of Jerusalem in 1936; secretary of the Cabinet of the All-Palestine Government, established 1948 in Gaza; in 1950 elected Palestinian representative in the Jordanian parliament lower house (Chamber of Deputies); September 1952, appointed to the Jordanian Cabinet (Minister of Development and Reconstruction, later Minister of Defence and Education); appointed to the Senate by King Hussein in 1963; Jordan's ambassador to Britain; 1965 Governor of Jerusalem; died on 24 November 1986 in Jerusalem.

Engineer, member of Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem, head of Board of Trustees of Al-Quds University, member of various Palestinian Organisations.

Academic; political analyst and columnist; born in 1949 in Jerusalem; son of Anwar Nusseibeh, a former Palestinian-Jordanian diplomat; graduate from Oxford University (politics, philosophy, economics, 1977) and Harvard University (PhD in philosophy, 1978); Professor of philosophy at Birzeit University, 1978-90; Director of Al-Quds University since 1995.