Jamal al-Husayni

Jamal Al Husayni

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Jamal al-Husayni

Jamal al-Husayni , (b. 1893-1982), was born in Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
and was a member of the influential Husayni family.

Husayni served as Secretary of the Palestinian Arab Action Committee (1921-1934) and the Muslim Supreme Council. He was founder and chairman of the Palestine Arab Party

Palestine Arab Party

The Palestinian Arab Party was a political party in British Mandate of Palestine established by the influential Husayni family in 1935. Jamal al-Husayni was the founder and chairman....
and its delegate to the Arab Higher Committee

Arab Higher Committee

The Arab Higher Committee was the central political organ of the Arab community of British Mandate of Palestine, established in 1936.On September 26, 1937, the British district commissioner of Galilee, Lewis Yelland Andrews, was assassinated in Nazareth....
, led by Amin al-Husayni.

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Jamal al-Husayni , (b. 1893-1982), was born in Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Palestine Arab Party

Arab Higher Committee

Great Uprising

The 1936?1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine was an uprising in protest against mass Jewish Immigration, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, by Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine....
he escaped first to Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
(1937) and then to 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....
, Iraq

Iraq

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(1939). He led the Arab delegation to the 1939 London Round Table Conference and was Palestinian representative to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry. Husayni was arrested by the British in 1941 and exiled to Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa, and known today as Zimbabwe....
. He was released at the end of World War II

World War II

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and returned to Palestine in 1946. He was an unofficial delegate to the United Nations

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in 1947-48. In September-October 1948 he was the foreign minister in the Egyptian-sponsored Government of All-Palestine.

Jamal al-Husayni

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