Politician and guerilla leader; Greek-Orthodox; physician; born 1925 in Lydda; expelled from there in 1948; in the early 1950s member of the organization, Opposed to Political Settlement with Israel'; Pan-Arabist and Nasser-follower in early years; called for fighting the national struggle for Palestine in a united Arab struggle; graduate in medicine, 1951 from American University of Beirut; founder member and activist in the Arab National Movement (founded in the early 1950s at the American University of Beirut); turned after the 1967 war leftwards in his political thinking and established the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1968; PFLP General Secretary from 1968 to 2000.

A lawyer from Jerusalem. He practiced law prior to the British Mandate. Al-Haddad became head of the National Committee before 1936. He died in 1951.

Rashid was a prominent Arab from Haifa. The story of Rashid will never be complete without the story of his partnership with Sheikh 'Izz ad-Din al-Qassam. Rashid received his early education in Palestine, and He worked for the Hijaz rail road. He died in Amman in 1953.

Palestinian lawyer and left-wing politician from Jerusalem; member and representative of the Communist Party; in the early 1950s head of the Refugee Congress; from-1967-69, ineffectual head of the "collective leadership" of the PLO.

PLO leader; studied engineering in the 1950-60s in Darmstadt and Munich, Germany; leader of the Union of Palestinian Students in Europe as well as of many affiliated workers' unions in the early 1960s; elected President of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) at a congress in Gaza, 1962; formed & led his own underground commando group in Germany; joined Fateh in 1963 and committed his group to it; Arafat's chief political adviser on day-to-day matters, his special envoy and crisis manager.

Born in 1928 in Haifa; fought in the struggle of 1947-48 and fled Haifa in its aftermath; in the early 1950s a teacher in Damascus whilst attempting to organize commando groups; in the mid-50s a secretary of the municipality in Kuwait; Fateh member since 1963; named to and became the leader of the first Fateh Central Committee; named to the PLO Executive Committee in 1968; known as moderate pragmatist and for his engagement of democracy and 'collective leadership' and opposition of armed/military struggle; chairman of the PNC's Foreign Relations Committee (first PLO 'foreign minister' and main architect of PLO foreign policy.

Born 1937 in Salt, Jordan, to a Christian Bedouin tribe; in the 1950s and 60s an activist in the Arab National Movement; in 1955/56 a teacher, writer and journalist in Jordan; graduated from Beirut University (BA, Philosophy and Psychology); member of Habash's PFLP in early years, but split and formed the leftist Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP; later known as DFLP) in 1968; became and remained elected chairman and main representative of the DFLP to the PNC and PLO Executive Commitee since; known for early attempts to reach dialogue and contact with Israeli leftist groups on the basis of a two-state-solution and UN resolutions 242 and 194; wrote several books on the Palestinian resistance movement and other issues.

Born in 1907 in Jerusalem; Son of Musa Qassem (Pasha) al-Husseini; graduate in chemistry at the American University of Cairo; organized a Congress of Educated Muslims in the early 1930s to fight discrimination against Palestinian Arabs in government services; founder (1931) and leader of the Al-Jihad Al-Muqaddas (Holy War) organization; leader of the Palestinian resistance during the Great Revolt of 1936-39; guerilla commander for the Jerusalem district; exiled in 1938, returned secretly to Jerusalem in 1948 after and was commander of the volunteer force of al-Jihad al-Muqaddas (Holy War Army); resistance organizer and Palestinian leader during the 1948 war; killed in a counter attack at Qastel, west of Jerusalem, on April 8, 1948.

Born in Jerusalem in 1895; studied religious law at al-Azhar University, Cairo, and at the Istanbul School of Administration; went to Mecca on a pilgrimage in 1913; joined the Ottoman Turkish army in World War I and returned to Jerusalem in 1917; member and president of Nadi al-Arabi; sentenced in abstencia to ten years imprisonment on charges of fomenting the riots of early 1920; was pardoned by the High Commissioner and returned in August 1920 to Jerusalem, calling for the incorporation of Palestine into Syria; appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on May 8, 1921 (until 1948); head of the First Palestinian Delegation to London in 1921; appointed president of the first Supreme Muslim Council in March 1922 (until 1937). Remained at the top of a secret 'political black list, as the Public Security Department regarded as extreme opponent of the government; led a campaign (1928-29) rousing the Arabs of Palestine to stand against the threat to the Muslim holy places in Jerusalem; head of the Palestinian Delegation to London, 1930; elected president of the Arab Higher Committee on April 25, 1936; as such, chief organiser of the 1936 Great Revolt and the internal Arab conflicts in 1937; ordered to be deported October 1, 1937, but escaped to Lebanon, Iraq, Italy and Germany; ran the National Leadership in exile in the late 1930s; conducted after the war the Palestinian struggle against the Partition Plan from exile (Egypt); elected President in absencia of the Arab Higher Executive (Fourth Higher Committee of the Arab League); named a local leader of the Muslim Brotherhood after its establishment in Jerusalem in the mid-1940s by followers of Hassan al-Banna, who founded the Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928; president of the National Assembly (known as All-Palestine government), set up by the Arab Higher Committee Congress on October 1, 1948, in Gaza; died on July 5, 1974 in Beirut.

Born in 1903 in Jerusalem. After receiving a Ph.D. in dentistry, he attained several government positions. He was elected a member of the Jordanian Parliament and held the position from 1956 to 1963. Afterwards, he retired but was appointed as the Minister of Economy, and later, the Head of the Chamber of Commerce of Amman.

Born on 17 July 1940 in Baghdad, Iraq, to a Muslim Palestinian notable family; son of legendary Palestinian guerilla leader Abdel Qader Husseini, who died during the battle for Jerusalem on 8 April 1948; grandson of Musa Qassem Pasha Al-Husseini, Palestinian nationalist during the Ottoman and British eras and former mayor of Jerusalem (March 1918, removed by the British for opposing their pro-Zionist policies in April 1920); and nephew of Hajj Amin Husseini, then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Studied in Cairo (elementary and secondary education), Baghdad, Damascus; joined the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) in 1957; founding member of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in 1959; underwent commando training in Egypt in 1963; returned to Jerusalem and worked for the PLO after its initial establishment in the city as deputy manager of the Public Organization Dept. (1964-65); received military training at a Syrian officers' academy and joined the Palestinian Liberation Army in 1967; graduate from Damascus Military College 1967; worked as x-ray technician in Jerusalem from 1969-1977; studied history in Beirut; returned to Jerusalem and founded the Arab Studies Society in 1979, whose chairman he remained ever since. Placed repeatedly under constant house and city arrest by Israel from 1982-87; several times imprisoned under "administrative detention" and without trial, last in October 1990 in the wake of the Al-Aqsa Mosque massacre; classified as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International in June 1987. Member of the Higher Islamic Council, Jerusalem, since 1982; Palestinian spokesperson and highly respected (Fateh) leader during the first Intifada; first prominent Palestinian to hold talks with a senior Likud politician, Moshe Amirav, in Sept. 1987 (together with Sari Nusseibeh and Salah Zuheikah); led preparatory talks for Madrid with James Baker in 1990; was part of the Palestinian steering committee to the peace talks from 1991; prevented from a direct role by Israel for two years (for being Jerusalemite); then head of the Palestinian delegation to the peace negotiations from April 1993; long time Arafat's chief representative in the OPT; headed Fateh High Command in the West Bank from 1994; one of the pioneers in developing and promoting Israeli-Palestinian dialogue; Palestinian national movement's local mediator for peace; highest-ranking Palestinian official in Jerusalem and the West Bank; PLO Executive Committee member since April 1996 (one of three members from - for the first time - 'inside' the OPT); member of the final status negotiating team. Minister without Portfolio in the PNA, in charge of the Jerusalem file (PLO representative to Jerusalem) since the mid-1990; head of the Orient House, the first national address in Jerusalem, subject to many confrontations with Israeli officials and settlers. Supported the peace process and the Oslo process at its outset but turned increasingly skeptical. Died suddenly of a heart attack on 31 May 2001, whilst acting as 1st PLO leader to visit Kuwait after the 1991 Gulf War; buried next to his father at Al-Aqsa Mosque on 1 June 2001. Struggled all his life for justice and independence in Palestine, based on UN Resolutions 242 and 338 and international law, and pursued tirelessly his dream to see Jerusalem as the capital of a free Palestine.

A Jerusalemite - Brother of Haj Amin - Fakhri practiced Law and loathed politics.

From Gaza. He launched "Al-Huquq" (The Rights) magazine, and practiced law. In 1927, he published "Sawt al-Haq" Newspaper.

Born in Jerusalem; educator; founder and president of Dar Al-Tifl Al-Arabi institute in East Jerusalem; member of board of trustees of various Palestinian women's organization.

Born in 1892; graduate from the Anglican School in Jerusalem; studied medicine at the American University of Beirut but was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I; served after the war in the British Military Government in the health department, as local adviser to the Governor of Nablus and as assistant to the Governor of Ramleh; was member of both, the Nadi al-Arabi and the Mun-tada al-Adabi organizations in 1918/19; later member of the pro-Husseini majle-siyoun faction; elected representative to the 6th Congress of the Arab Executive Committee (June 1923, Jaffa) for Jerusalem and to the 7th (June 1928) for Bethlehem; elected secretary of the Executive Committee at the congresses from 1920-1928; secretary of the Supreme Muslim Council from 1927-30; suspected by the Jews of organising the revolt of 1929; member of the Palestinian Delegation to London in 1930; organizer and chairman of the Mufti's Palestine Arab party, established in 1935; member of the Arab Higher Committee in Palestine 1936-37 and its representative to the UN 1947-48; Mufti's representative and president of the Palestinian delegation to the London Conference, St. James's Palace, February 1939; in 1940-41 active among Palestinian exiles in Iraq; caught by the British after escape from Iraq and exiled to Southern Rhodesia; returned to Palestine in 1946 and elected vice president of the Arab Higher Executive (Fourth Higher Committee of the Arab League); reorganized his party and formed its paramilitary youth organization al-Futuwwa; named foreign minister to the All-Palestine Government, established in 1948; from the late 50's to 70's worked as consultant to Sudia Arabia; died on July 3, 1982.

Born in 1842; Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1890s; headed a commission set up in Jerusalem in 1897 by local notables to examine land sales to Jews; under his presidency the commission succeeded and effectively stopped land sales in the Jerusalem area for the next few years; died in 1908; father of Haj Amin al-Husseini.

Born in 1853; graduate from the Istanbul School of Administration; held many administrative positions (among others district Governor of Yemen, 1908) in the Ottoman Empire from which he retired on the eve of World War I; appointed mayor of Jerusalem (March 1918), but removed by the British for opposing their pro-Zionist policies in April 1920; leading figure in the Jerusalem branch of the MCA in 1919; from then until his death he led the Palestinian national movement; leader and spokesperson of the opposition to the British Mandate; belonged to the pro-Husseini majlesiyoun faction; elected representative of Jerusalem to the 3rd (December 1920, Haifa), 5th (August 1922, Nablus), 6th (June 1923, Jaffa) and 7th (June 1928) Congress of the Arab Executive Committee; elected president of the Arab Executive Committee at the 3rd Congress in Haifa, 14 Dec. 1920 and held this position until 1928; head and member of the Palestinian Delegations to London in the 1920-30s; leader of the demonstration protesting Zionist mass immigration in Jaffa, 27 October 1933 where he was injured, hastening his death on March 27, 1934; father of Abd al-Qader al-Husseini.