Faisal Husseini

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Faisal Husseini

Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini (July 17, 1940–May 31, 2001) was a Palestinian politician who was considered a possible future leader of the Palestinian people.

Husseini was born in Baghdad

Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
son of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni was a Palestinian nationalism and fighter who in late 1933 founded the secret militant group known as the Organization for Holy Struggle, , which he and Hasan Salama commanded as the Army of the Holy War in the 1948 Palestine War....
, commander of local Arab forces during the siege of 1948 and grand-nephew of the Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husayni

Mohammad Amin al-Husayni

Mohammad Amin al-Husayni , a member of the al-Husayni clan of Jerusalem, was a Palestinian nationalism Arab nationalism and Muslim leader in the British Mandate of Palestine....
, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

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Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini (July 17, 1940–May 31, 2001) was a Palestinian politician who was considered a possible future leader of the Palestinian people.

Husseini was born in Baghdad

Baghdad

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni

Mohammad Amin al-Husayni

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Cairo

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, Baghdad

Baghdad

Damascus

Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities and its current population is estimated at about 4,000,000....
. He was a founding member of the General Union of Palestinian Students

General Union of Palestinian Students

The General Union of Palestinian Students is an organization run by Palestinian students since the early 1920s. It is generally considered one of the first Palestinian institutions started....
(GUPS) in 1959.

Husseini went to work for the Palestine Liberation Organization

Palestine Liberation Organization

The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization regarded by the Arab League since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."...
(PLO) upon its establishment in Jerusalem

Jerusalem

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as deputy manager of the Public Organisation Dept, a post he filled from 1964 to 1965. He later received military training at the Damascus Military College after which he joined the Palestinian Liberation Army

Palestinian Liberation Army

The Palestinian Liberation Army was ostensibly set up as the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization by Nasser in 1964, with the mission of fighting Israel....
in 1967.

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

First Intifada

The First Intifada was a mass Palestinian Rebellion against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories. The rebellion began in the Jabalya Camp refugee camp and quickly spread throughout Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem....
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In 1982, he became a member of the Supreme Muslim Council

Muslim Council

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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

Madrid Conference of 1991

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and subsequent talks, head of the Fatah

Fatah

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faction in the West Bank

West Bank

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, and Palestinian Authority Minister without Portfolio.

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

Kuwaiti

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government and PLO which were broken at the time of the 1991 Gulf War

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Husseini was considered a pragmatist by journalists. He taught himself to speak Hebrew

Hebrew language

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and regularly appeared in radio and television shows in Israel to explain the Palestinians' point of view.

Husseini was buried on the Temple Mount

Temple Mount

The Temple Mount , also known as Mount Moriah and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary , is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem of Jerusalem....
, Judaism's holiest site and a Muslim holy site as well. Right-wing Jews

Right-wing politics

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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

Orient House

The Orient House was the PLO headquarters in East Jerusalem in the 1980s and 1990s. The house was built in 1897 by Musa al-Husayni, and has inherited down the Al-Husayni family since....
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