Mandate Period and After
Name | Field | Speciality | Place of birth | Year of Birth |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wasif Jawhariyyeh | Music | Oud composer | Jerusalem | 1897 |
Sami Hadawi | Academia | land specialist and researcher | Jerusalem | 1904 |
Ibrahim Abu Lughod | Academia | sociologist | Jaffa | 1929 |
Lila Abu Lughod | Academia | professor, anthropology, women and gender studies | USA | 1950s |
Salman Abu Sitta | Academia | Beersheba | 1938 | |
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad | Academia | academic | USA | 1948 |
Naseer Aruri | Academia | academic | Jerusalem | 1934 |
Hanna Batatu | Academia | historian | Jerusalem | 1926 |
Izzat Darwaza | Academia | historian, politician, educator | Nablus | 1888 |
Samih Farsoun | Academia | sociologist | Haifa | 1937 |
Ismail al-Faruqi | Academia | philosopher and comparative religions professor | Jaffa | 1921 |
Leila Farsakh | Academia | Middle East, politics | Jordan | 1967 |
Rashid Khalidi | Academia | historian | USA | 1948 |
Walid Khalidi | Academia | historian | Jerusalem | 1925 |
Salem Hanna Khamis | Academia | economic statistician | Nazareth | 1919 |
Laila Al-Marayati | Medicine | gynecologist | USA | 1962 |
Khaled Mardam-Bey | Academia | programmer | Jordan | 1968 |
Nur Masalha | Academia | academic, historian, editor | Galilee | 1957 |
Joseph Massad | Academia | academic | Jordan | 1963 |
Sari Nusseibeh | Academia | philosopher, diplomat | Syria | 1949 |
Edward Said | Academia | professor of comparative literature, intellectual, and Palestinian Nationalist | Jerusalem | 1935 |
Nadia Abu El Haj | Academia | Professor, Anthropologist | USA | 1962 |
Rosemarie Said Zahlan | Academia | historian | Egypt | 1937 |
Anis Sayigh | Academia | historian | Tiberias | 1931 |
Yezid Sayigh | Academia | historian | USA | 1955 |
Hashem El-Serag | Medicine | doctor and medical researcher | Libya | 1966 |
Hisham Sharabi | Academia | intellectual | Jaffa | 1927 |
Qustandi Shomali | Academia | Professor, Historian, Critic, Researcher | Beit Sahour | 1946 |
Khalil Suleiman | Medicine | medical doctor | Jenin | 1943 |
Helga Tawil Souri | Academia | Professor, Media scholar & researcher, filmmaker | Kuwait | 1969 |
Ahmad Teebi | Academia | geneticist and dysmorphologist | Beirut | 1949 |
Ali Abunimah | Literature | author, journalist | USA | 1971 |
Said K. Aburish | Literature | author, journalist | Jerusalem | 1935 |
Mourid Barghouti | Literature | poet | Ramallah | 1944 |
Khalil Beidas | Literature | author | Nazareth | 1874 |
Jamal Dajani | Literature | author, journalist, producer | Jerusalem | 1957 |
Mahmoud Darwish | Literature | poet | Al-Birwa | 1941 |
Khaled Ennasra | Poet | Journalist | Jenin | 1927 |
Emile Habibi | Literature | author | Haifa | 1922 |
Suheir Hammad | Literature | poet | Jordan | 1973 |
Nadia Hijab | Literature | author, journalist | Syria | 1950s |
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra | Literature | poet, novelist, translator and literary critic | Bethlehem | 1919 |
Sabri Jiryis | Literature | author | Fassuta | 1938 |
Ghassan Kanafani | Literature | author | Acre | 1938 |
Hasan Karmi | Literature | linguist and author | Tulkarm | 1905 |
Ghada Karmi | Literature | author | Jerusalem | 1939 |
Sayed Kashua | Literature | author and journalist | Tira | 1975 |
Widad Kawar | Literature | author and collector | Bethlehem | 1932 |
Sahar Khalifa | Literature | novelist | Nablus | 1942 |
Daoud Kuttab | Literature | journalist, author | Jerusalem | 1955 |
Taha Muhammad Ali | Literature | poet | Saffuriyya | 1931 |
Salman Masalha | Literature | poet, writer, essayist and translator | Maghar | 1953 |
Kamal Nasser | Literature | poet, activist | Gaza | 1925 |
Mohammed Omer | Literature | journalist | Rafah | 1984 |
Samih al-Qasim | Literature | poet | Jordan | 1939 |
Nahid al-Rayyis | Literature | poet | Gaza | 1937 |
Abu Salma | Literature | poet | Haifa | 1906 |
Khalil al-Sakakini | Literature | author | Jerusalem | 1878 |
Naomi Shihab Nye | Literature | poet | USA | 1952 |
Serene Husseini Shahid | Literature | author, philanthropist, researcher and collector of Palestinian costumes | Jerusalem | 1920 |
Anton Shammas | Literature | writer, poet and translator | Fassuta | 1950 |
Khaled Abu Toameh | Literature | journalist | Tulkarm | 1963 |
Fadwa Toukan | Literature | poet | Nablus | 1917 |
Ibrahim Touqan | Literature | poet, writer of the poem Mawtini, the current national anthem of Iraq | Nablus | 1905 |
Samir El Youssef | Literature | writer and critic | Lebanon | 1965 |
May Ziade | Literature | author | Nazareth | 1886 |
Mustafa Abu Ali | Film | film director, founder of Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema, eight films | Malha | 1940 |
Hany Abu-Assad | Film | film director | Nazareth | 1961 |
Muhammad Bakri | Film | film director | Bi'ina | 1953 |
Cherien Dabis | Film | film director, writer | USA | 1976 |
Annemarie Jacir | Film | film director, writer | Bethlehem | 1974 |
Michel Khleifi | Film | film director (Wedding in Galilee) | Nazareth | 1950 |
Clara Khoury | Film | actress | Haifa | 1976 |
Makram Khoury | Film | actor, first Arab to win (Israel Prize – 1987) | Jerusalem | 1945 |
Rashid Masharawi | Film | film director | Gaza | 1962 |
Mai Masri | Film | film director | Beirut | 1959 |
Elia Suleiman | Film | film director (Divine Intervention) | Nazareth | 1960 |
Hiam Abbas | Film | actress | Nazareth | 1960 |
Charlie Bisharat | Music | Grammy-winning violinist | USA | 1963 |
Belly | Music | Rapper | Jenin | 1984 |
Rim Banna | Music | singer/songwriter | Nazareth | 1966 |
Ammar Hasan | Music | singer | Salfit | 1976 |
Wissam Joubran | Music | composer and Oud player | Nazareth | 1983 |
Reem Kelani | Music | singer | UK | 1970s |
Shadia Mansour | Music | singer | UK | 1980s |
Amal Murkus | Music | singer | Galilee | 1970s |
Mohsen Subhi | Music | composer, arranger, oud and buzuq player | Ramallah | 1963 |
DJ Khaled | Music | hip-hop producer, radio personality, and DJ | USA | 1975 |
Simon Shaheen | Music | oud and violin virtuoso, composer | Galilee | 1955 |
Massiv | Music | rapper | Germany | 1982 |
Melechesh (band) | Music | Jerusalem | 1970s | |
Habib Hassan Touma | Music | composer | Nazareth | 1934 |
Fred Wreck | Music | hip-hop producer | USA | 1972 |
Tamer Nafar | Music | rapper of DAM fame | Lod | 1979 |
Sameh Zakout | Music | rapper | Ramle | 1980s |
Laila Bagge Wahlgren | Music | manager and songwriter | Sweden | 1972 |
Tarééc | Music | German singer | Germany | 1978 |
DAM (band) | Music | Palestinian rap group | Lod | 1970s |
Naji al-Ali | Art | cartoonist | al-Shajara | 1938 |
Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan | Art | artist | Jericho | 1941 |
Mustafa Al-Hallaj | Art | artist | Jaffa | 1938 |
Mona Hatoum | Art | sculptor | Beirut | 1952 |
Hasan Hourani | Art | painter | Hebron | 1974 |
Bissan Rafe | Art | painter and writer | Kuwait | 1986 |
Emily Jacir | Art | painter and photographer, artist | Bethlehem | 1970 |
Hanna Jubran | Art | sculptor | Galilee | 1952 |
Sliman Mansour | Art | painter | Birzeit | 1947 |
Sama Raena Alshaibi | Art | photographer, artist | Iraq | 1980s |
Ahlam Shibli | Art | photographer | Galilee | 1970 |
Jafar Tukan | Art | architect | Jerusalem | 1938 |
Hisham Zreiq | Art | artist | Nazareth | 1968 |
Rami Kashou | Art | fashion designer | Ramallah | 1977 |
Jaffa Phonix (band) | Music | band | Kuwait | 1980s |
Zaman (band) | Music | Palestinian folk and flamenco band | Acre | |
Yousef Beidas | Business | Intra Bank | Jerusalem | 1912 |
Munib al-Masri | Business | PADICO | Nablus | 1934 |
Hasib Sabbagh | Business | Consolidated Contractors International Company | Tiberias | 1920 |
Naim Attallah | Business | Asprey, Quartet Publishing | Haifa | 1931 |
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh | Business | Jaffa | 1938 | |
Sam Bahour | Business | West bank businessman | USA | 1964 |
Yasser Elshantaf | Business | Vice chairman of PhoenixBird, and CEO of Safadi Group | Gaza | 1983 |
Tarab Abdul Hadi | Politics | Activist | Jenin | 1910 |
Fu'ad Nassar | Politics (PCP) | Co-founded National Liberation League in Palestine | Nazareth | 1914 |
Nabil Amr | Politics (Fatah) | presidential aide and negotiator | 1947 | |
Yasser Arafat | Politics (Fatah) | First President of the PNA | Cairo | 1929 |
Hakam Balawi | Politics (Fatah) | former ambassador of PLO to Tunisia and Algeria | Tulkarm | 1939 |
Marwan Barghouti | Politics (Fatah) | founder of Tanzim and senior Fatah opposition figure | Kobar | 1959 |
Mohammed Dahlan | Politics (Fatah) | Head of Preventive Security Service in Gaza | Gaza | 1961 |
Saeb Erekat | Politics (Fatah) | presidential aide and senior negotiator | Jerusalem | 1955 |
Qadura Fares | Politics (Fatah) | PNA minister and aide of Barghouti | ||
Rawhi Fattuh | Politics (Fatah) | former interim President of the PNA | Barqa | 1949 |
Faisal Husseini | Politics (Fatah) | former head of Jerusalem affairs | Baghdad | 1940 |
Farouk Kaddoumi | Politics (Fatah) | former head of Fatah | Jinsafut | 1931 |
Salah Khalaf | Politics (Fatah) | former top aide of Arafat | Jaffa | 1933 |
Ahmed Qurei | Politics (Fatah) | former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority | Jerusalem | 1937 |
Ali Hassan Salameh | Politics (PLO) | Qula | 1940 | |
Nabil Shaath | Politics (Fatah) | former Foreign Affairs Minister | Safed | 1938 |
Khalil al-Wazir | Politics (PLO) | former PLO military leader and top aide of Arafat | Ramla | 1938 |
Dalal Mughrabi | Other | militant killed during the Coastal Road massacre | Lebanon | 1959 |
Muhammad Abu Tir | Politics (Hamas) | Jerusalem | 1951 | |
Mohammad Barghouti | Politics (Hamas) | |||
Mohammed Deif | Politics (Hamas) | Leader of Hamas' military wing | 1960 | |
Ismail Haniyeh | Politics (Hamas) | Gaza | 1963 | |
Ahmed al-Ja'abari | Politics (Hamas) | Gaza | 1960 | |
Wasfi Kabha | Politics (Hamas) | Prisoners' Affairs Minister | ||
Khaled Meshaal | Politics (Hamas) | Secretary-General of Hamas | Silwad | 1956 |
Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi | Politics (Hamas) | founder and former Secretary-General of Hamas | Yibna | 1947 |
Ahmed Yassin | Politics (Hamas) | founder and spiritual leader | Al-Jura | 1937 |
Mahmoud al-Zahar | Politics (Hamas) | former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Hamas foreign minister | Jerusalem | 1945 |
Salah Shehade | Politics (Hamas) | leader of military wing of the Hamas organization | Gaza | 1953 |
Yahya Ayyash | Politics (Hamas) | chief bombmaker planner of the Hadera bus station suicide bombing | Jerusalem | 1966 |
Bassam Abu Sharif | Politics (PFLP) | former spokesperson of PFLP and PLO | 1946 | |
George Habash | Politics (PFLP) | founder and former Secretary-General of PFLP | Lod | 1926 |
Abu Ali Mustafa | Politics (PFLP) | former Secretary-General of PFLP | Jenin | 1938 |
Leila Khaled | Politics (PFLP) | former PFLP militant and activist | Haifa | 1944 |
Ahmed Saadat | Politics (PFLP) | current Secretary-General of PFLP | al-Bireh | 1953 |
Riyad al-Malki | Politics (PFLP) | current Foreign Affairs Minister of PNA | 1955 | |
Wadie Haddad | Politics (PFLP) | former PFLP militant and founder | Safed | 1927 |
Abu Qatada | Politics | al-Qaeda Muslim religious preacher and militant | Bethlehem | 1959 |
Abu Muthana | Politics | spokesman for the Palestinian Army of Islam | ||
Awni Abd al-Hadi | Politics | Palestinian political figure | Nablus | 1889 |
Haidar Abdel-Shafi | Politics | independent, head of Palestinian delegation to Madrid Peace Conference of 1991 | Gaza | 1919 |
Salah Abdel-Shafi | Politics | independent, economist, Palestinian Ambassador to Sweden | Gaza | 1962 |
Muhammad Zaidan | Politics | PLF | Syria | 1948 |
Musa Alami | Politics | Jerusalem | 1897 | |
Hanan Ashrawi | Politics | Third Way | Nablus | 1946 |
Mustafa Barghouti | Politics | doctor and leader of the Palestinian National Initiative | Jerusalem | 1954 |
Nayef Hawatmeh | Politics | DFLP | Jordan | 1935 |
Ahmed Jibril | Politics | PFLP-GC | Jaffa | 1938 |
Karimeh Abbud | Art | photographer | Shefa 'Amr | 1896 |
Nimr al-Khatib | Politics | political leader, Haifa | Haifa | 1918 |
Jabra Nicola | Politics | Trotskyist leader | Haifa | 1912 |
Abu Nidal | Politics | Abu Nidal Organization | Jaffa | 1937 |
Nahid al-Rayyis | Politics | Justice Minister of the Palestinian National Authority | Gaza | 1937 |
Afif Safieh | Politics | Palestine's Ambassador to the Russian Federation | jerusalem | 1950 |
Hasan Tahboub | Politics | former Head of the Supreme Islamic Council | Hebron | 1923 |
Ruhi al-Khatib | Politics (local) | Mayor of East Jerusalem from 1957 to 1994; titular | Jerusalem | 1914 |
Fahmi al-Abboushi | Politics (local) | appointed Mayor of Jenin in 1935 | Jenin | 1895 |
Hussein Al-Araj | Politics (local) | former mayor of Nablus | ||
Ramiz Jaraisy | Politics (local) | Mayor of Nazareth | 1951 | |
Omar Hammayil | Politics (local) | mayor of al-Bireh | 1976 | |
Mohammed Milhim | Politics (local) | former mayor of Halhul | 1929 | |
Hadem Rida | Politics (local) | mayor of Jenin | ||
Bassam Shaka | Politics (local) | former mayor of Nablus | 1930 | |
Ghassan Shakaa | Politics (local) | former mayor of Nablus | 1943 | |
Adly Yaish | Politics (local) | mayor of Nablus | ||
Adel Zawati | Politics (local) | Former mayor of Jenine, Nablus, Hebron, Ruler of Yafa, Ramleh | Nablus | 1920 |
Ahmad Tibi | Politics (Israel) | member of Israeli Knesset from the Ta'al party,former political advisor to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat | Tayibe | 1958 |
Azmi Bishara | Politics (Israel) | ormer member of Israeli Knesset, from the Balad party | Nazareth | 1956 |
Jamal Zahalka | Politics (Israel) | member of Israeli Knesset, from the Balad party | Kafr Qara | 1955 |
Hana Sweid | Politics (Israel) | member of Israeli Knesset with Hadash and mayor of Eilabun | Eilabun | 1955 |
Tawfiq Ziad | Politics (PCP) | a poet, a former mayor of Nazareth and a former Hadash member of Israeli Knesset | Nazareth | 1929 |
Ibrahim Sarsur | Politics (Israel) | Kneseet member Israel from the United Arab List party | Kafr Qara | 1959 |
Taleb el-Sana | Politics (Israel) | Kneseet member Israel from the United Arab List party | Tel Arad | 1960 |
Mohammad Barakeh | Politics (Israel) | member of Israeli Knesset, from Hadash party | Shefa-'Amr | 1955 |
Haneen Zoabi | Politics (Israel) | First Arab woman elected to the Knesset on an Arab party | Nazareth | 1969 |
Rania of Jordan | Politics (Foreign) | Queen of Jordan, wife of King Abdullah II | Kuwait | 1970 |
Alia al Hussein | Politics (Foreign) | late Queen of Jordan, 3rd wife of King Hussein | Cairo | 1948 |
Antonio Saca | Politics (Foreign) | former president of El Salvador | El Salvador | 1965 |
Shafik Handal | Politics (Foreign) | El Salvador politician | El Salvador | 1930 |
Carlos Flores Facussé | Politics (Foreign) | president of Honduras | Honduras | 1950 |
Said Musa | Politics (Foreign) | Prime Minister of Belize | Belize | 1944 |
Pierre de Bané | Politics (Foreign) | Canadian | Haifa | 1938 |
Naser Khader | Politics (Foreign) | member of the Parliament of Denmark | Syria | 1963 |
Joe Hockey | Politics (Foreign) | Australian cabinet minister | Australia | 1965 |
John H. Sununu | Politics (Foreign) | former Chief of Staff Pres. George H. Bush Administration | Cuba | 1939 |
John E. Sununu | Politics (Foreign) | Senator New Hampshire | USA | 1954 |
Huwaida Arraf | Politics | co-founder of ISM | USA | 1976 |
Mubarak Awad | Politics | advocate of nonviolent resistance | Jerusalem | 1943 |
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam | Religion (Islam) | Islamist scholar & activist | Jenin | 1941 |
Bulus Farah | Politics | trade unionist | Haifa | 1910 |
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni | Politics | nationalist leader | Jerusalem | 1907 |
Archbishop Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia | Religion (Christianity) | current Archbishop of Sebastia for the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem | Galilee | 1965 |
Riah Abu Assal | Religion (Christianity) | current Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem | Nazareth | 1937 |
Naim Ateek | Religion (Christianity) | founder of Sabeel | Beit She'an | 1937 |
Elias Chacour | Religion (Christianity) | Archbishop of Galilee, of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church | Galilee | 1939 |
Michel Sabah | Religion (Christianity) | current Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem | Nazareth | 1933 |
Munib Younan | Religion (Christianity) | Lutheran bishop | Jerusalem | 1950 |
Rifat Odeh Kassis | Politics | human rights and community activist | Beit Sahour | |
Mitri Raheb | Religion (Christianity) | Lutheran minister and author | Bethlehem | 1962 |
Benny Hinn | Religion (Christianity) | evangelical preacher | Jaffa | 1952 |
Anis Shorrosh | Religion (Christianity) | Evangelical preacher and debater | Nazareth | 1930s |
Amin al-Husayni | Politics | former Mufti of Jerusalem | Jerusalem | 1895 |
Ekrima Sa'id Sabri | Religion (Islam) | former Mufti of Jerusalem | ||
Ahmad Abu Laban | Religion (Islam) | Imam in Denmark | Jaffa | 1946 |
Raed Salah | Religion (Islam) | leader of the Northern branch of the Islamic Movement | 1958 | |
Sheikh Taissir Tamimi | Religion (Islam) | Head of Islamic court in Palestinian territories | Hebron | |
Omar Sheika | Sport | Professional Boxer | USA | 1977 |
Salim Tuama | Sport | soccer player | Lod | 1979 |
Ramsey Nijem | Sport | MMA fighter, The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos runner up | USA | 1988 |
Walid Badir | Sport | soccer player, Israeli team, Captain of Hapoel Tel Aviv | Kafr Qasim | 1974 |
Muhammad al-Durrah | Other | 12-year old boy shot under disputed circumstances | Gaza | 1988 |
Fatma Omar An-Najar | Other | 64-year old grandmother and oldest Palestinian suicide bomber | 1942 | |
Faris Odeh | Other | teenage boy shot while throwing stones | Gaza | 1985 |
Rana Raslan | other | 1999 Miss Israel contest winner | Haifa | 1977 |
Saeed Hotari | other | suicide bomber of the Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing | ||
Mahmoud Abbas | Politics (Fatah) | President of the PNA | Safed | 1935 |
Tawfiq Canaan | Academic | Doctor and academic | Beit Jala | 1881 |
Ahmad Shukeiri | Politics (PLO) | First chairman of the PLO | Lebanon | 1908 |
Wael Zwaiter | Other | translator, assassinated | Nablus | 1930s |
Omar Barghouti | Politics | political activist and analyst PACBI | Qatar | 1964 |
Asma Agbarieh | Politics, journalism | journalist, leader of Organization for Democratic Action | Jaffa | 1974 |
Muin Bseiso | Literature | Poet | Gaza | 1926 |
Eyad al-Sarraj | Medicine | Psychiatrist and human rights activist | Beersheba | 1944 |
Read more about this topic: Palestinian Musicians
Famous quotes containing the words and after and/or period:
“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)