Musa Al-Alami
(1897 - 1984)
Born in Jerusalem in 1897; son of Faidi al-Alami;
landowner; graduated in law from Cambridge University; during the 1930s
Secretary to the High Commissioner and Junior Crown Counsel in the Mandatory
administration; in 1936 Secretary General of the Legal Department in Jerusalem; participated in
the 1936-39 revolt alongside the Mufti; held a series of talks with
the Jewish Agency leader David
Ben Gurion; member of the Palestinian delegation to the London Conference,
St. James's Palace, February 1939; representative of the Palestinian
political Parties at the Preparatory Conference for the Establishment
of the Arab League, held in Alexandria in September/October 1944, preceding
the establishment of the League
of Arab States in 1945; founded Palestinian-Arab propaganda offices
in Jerusalem, Beirut, London and Washington and created a special fund
to help Palestinian farmers to retain their land in 1945; after the
1948 war, founded the Arab Development Society in Jericho;
died on June 8, 1984, in Jerusalem.
Sources: PASSIA |