Ahmad Shuqeiri
(1907 - 1980)
Born in 1908 in Acre;
studied at the Jerusalem Law School and the American University of Beirut;
in the early 1930s opposition leader in the north of Palestine; member
of the Istiqlal Party; head of a Palestinian propaganda office in the
USA in 1945 (later in Jerusalem);
member of the Arab Higher Committee in 1946; member of the Syrian delegation
to the United Nations 1949-50;
assistant secretary general of the Arab
League in charge of Palestinian affairs 1951-57; Saudi Arabian Minister
of State for UN affairs and Ambassador to the UN 1957-62; in 1963 appointed
by the Arab League as Palestinian representative to the Arab League
(replacing Ahmad Hilmi who died); drew the first draft of the Palestinian
National Charter which became the basic law for the establishment
of the PLO; first President
of the PLO (1964-67); formed the Palestinian Liberation Army; died in
1980 in Amman; published memoirs Forty Years of Arab and International
Life (Beirut, 1969. In Arabic).
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