Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini (Arabic: فيصل عبدالقادر الحسيني) (July 17, 1940 - May 31, 2001) was a Palestinian politician who was considered a possible future leader of the Palestinian people. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn
Husseini was born in Baghdad son of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of local Arab forces during the siege of 1948 and grand-nephew of the Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Baghdad (بغداد) is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (عبد القادر الحسيني also spelled Abd al-Qader al-Husseini) (1907-1948 was a Palestinian nationalist and fighter who Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (محمد أمين الحسيني properly transliterated al-Husseini, 1895 / 1897 - July 4, 1974) a member The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is the Sunni Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem 's Islamic holy places including the Al-Aqsa Mosque He studied in Cairo, Baghdad, and Damascus. Cairo () which means "the Vanquisher" or "the Triumphant" is the capital and largest city of Egypt. Baghdad (بغداد) is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous Damascus ( دمشق,, also commonly known as الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. He was a founding member of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) in 1959. The General Union of Palestinian Students ( إتحاد الطلاب الفلسطينين العام) ( GUPS) is an organization run by Palestinian students
Husseini went to work for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) upon its establishment in Jerusalem as deputy manager of the Public Organisation Dept, a post he filled from 1964 to 1965. The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO) (منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية or Munazzamat al-Tahrir al-Filastiniyyah) is a political and paramilitary Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the He later received military training at the Damascus Military College after which he joined the Palestinian Liberation Army in 1967. The Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA was set up as the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO in 1964 with the mission of fighting Israel.
In 1979, Husseini founded and became chairman of the Arab Studies Society.
From 1982-1987, he was repeatedly placed under house and city arrest. He was imprisoned several times from April 1987- January 1989, but remained active in the Intifada. The First Intifada (1987–1993 (also " Intifada " and "war of the stones" was a mass Palestinian uprising against Israeli
In 1982, he became a member of the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem. Subsequently he served as a Palestinian spokesperson, head of the Jerusalem National Council/Palestine, member and later head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference and subsequent talks, head of the Fatah faction in the West Bank, and Palestinian Authority Minister without Portfolio. The Madrid Conference was hosted by the government of Spain and co-sponsored by the USA and the USSR Fatah (فتح literally opening, is a reverse Acronym from the Arabic name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (حركة التحرير The West Bank (الضفة الغربية, הגדה המערבית Hagadah Hamaaravit) also referred to in Israel as " Judea and Samaria
His last post was Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem Affairs for which he was based in East Jerusalem. He died while trying to mend relations between the Kuwaiti government and PLO which were broken at the time of the 1991 Gulf War. The State of Kuwait ( دولة الكويت IPA [dawlatt̪ alkuwajt̪]) is a sovereign Arab Emirate on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed
Husseini was considered a pragmatist by journalists. He taught himself to speak Hebrew and regularly appeared in radio and television shows in Israel to explain the Palestinians' point of view.
Husseini was buried on the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site and a Muslim holy site as well. The Temple Mount ( הַר הַבַּיִת, Har haBáyit) also called the Noble Sanctuary ( الحرم القدسي الشريف, al-haram Right-wing Jews see the burial as an insult, for Jewish purity laws forbid dead bodies from the Temple Mount.
Following Husseini's death, Israeli police seized his headquarters, the Orient House. The Orient House was the PLO headquarters in East Jerusalem in the 1980s and 1990s
External links
- On Camp David 2000
- Searching for the Path Forward
- Brief Biography
- A biography
- Graham Usher: Mourning the 'Son of Jerusalem': Faisal al-Husseini Winter-Spring 2001, Issue 11-12 Jerusalem Quarterly
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