Yousef al-Khalidi
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Yusuf Dia Pasha al-Khalidi was a prominent Palestinian
who played a major political role in the Ottoman Empire
dominance period. He was born in 1829 in Jerusalem.
He was elected to represent the Jerusalem district in the first Ottoman Parliament (1877), he became head of the Jerusalem Municipality in (1899), and died in 1907.
Al-Khalidi played a key role in the opposing political factions established to prohibit the Ottoman Empire's attempts to violate the constitution. He also wrote the first Kurdish
-Arabic
dictionary.
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
who played a major political role in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
dominance period. He was born in 1829 in Jerusalem.
He was elected to represent the Jerusalem district in the first Ottoman Parliament (1877), he became head of the Jerusalem Municipality in (1899), and died in 1907.
Al-Khalidi played a key role in the opposing political factions established to prohibit the Ottoman Empire's attempts to violate the constitution. He also wrote the first Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
-Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
dictionary.