Nayef Hawatmeh (Abul Nouf)
(1937 - )
Nayef Hawatmeh was born in 1937 in Salt, Jordan,
to a Christian Bedouin tribe; in the 1950s and 60s activist in the Arab National Movement;
in 1955/56 teacher, writer and journalist in Jordan;
graduated from Beirut University (BA, Philosophy and Psychology); member
of George 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 base of a two-state-solution and UN resolutions 242 and 194;
wrote several books on the Palestinian Resistance Movement and other
issues.
Sources: PASSIA |