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Gaoudah Marqas
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities |
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Hikmat Masri
Businessman from Nablus; member of the Jordainian Parliament (Upper House) 1967-1971; elected to serve as PLO vice-president in 1964; head of board of trustees of An-Najah University in Nablus 1972-1944. Died on December 12, 1994. |
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Munib Al-Masri
Member of the Board of Trustees of Al-Quds University; chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah; was traded as a candidate for the position of PA Prime Minister in March 2003. |
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Zafer Al-Masri
Landowner from Nablus; elected head of Nablus Chamber of Commerce; elected mayor of Nablus; assassinated in March 1986. |
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Karma Nabulsi
Studied Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, and received an MPhil in 1992 and a DPhil in 1996; was a Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University from 1998-2005; author of Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law. |
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Nasouh Nabulsi
Was among the founders of the Arab Medical Society in Jaffa and served as its Secretary for ten years; became Director of the Medical Administration in the Arab League office in Cairo; died in 1992. |
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Omar Nabulsi
Member of the Jordanian Upper House of Parliament from 1989-1993; Chairman of the Jordan Electricity Authority, the Industrial Development Corp., the Encouragement of Investment Committee, and the General Social Security Cooperation; |
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Suleiman Najjab
Was active in creating the PNF; one of the leaders of the Palestinian Communist Party; was appointed as its representative to the PLO Exec. Committee in April 1987 (until his death in 2001); |
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Walid Najjab
Was elected Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Paltrade; served as Deputy Chairman of the Palestine Cellular Company JAWWAL from 1999-2004; is a Board member of the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL), |
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Issa Nakhleh
Holding the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary; senior advisor of the UN Palestinian delegation; represented the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine in New York from the early 1960s until his death on 29 March 2003; |
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Khalil Nakhleh
PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Indiana Univ. in 1973; became Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Sociology at St. John’s Univ. from 1972-79; Director of the Qattan Center for Educational Research and Development 2004-2005; |
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Garo Nalbandian
Skillful photographer; filmed movies and traveled a lot, collecting one of the largest photo achieves of the Holy Land, Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus, and many other countries; has provided the photographs for some 25 illustrated books. |
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Sumaya Naser
PhD in Biology/Applied Botany from Hamburg University; Assistant Professor of Biology from 1982-97; Assistant to the Vice-Pres. for Academic Affairs from 1986-89; co-founder and Board member of the Birzeit Public Library from 1997-2001; |
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Mohammed Zuhdi Nashashibi
member of the PLO Central Council; served as Chair of the PNF in Amman and Tunis; former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Al-Quds University, Jerusalem; member of the PA’s High Council for Refugee Camps; |
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Nasser El Din Nashashibi
Manager of Akhbar Al-Yaum newspaper and journalist from 1953-58; was appointed by Egyptian Pres. Gamal Abdel Nasser to become Chief Editor of Al-Jumhuriyya, serving from 1959-66; Ambassador at large for the Arab League in 1966; |
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Rana Nashashibi
MA in Counseling Psychology from Indiana State University in 1986; became Program Coordinator and Assistant Director of the Palestinian Counseling Center from 1986-88; Registrar at the College of Arts for Women, Al-Quds Univ., from 1988-91; |
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Hanna Nasir
PhD in Nuclear Physics from Purdue University, US, in 1967; independent PNC member since 1976; PLO Exec. Pres. of Birzeit University until his retirement in 2004; remains chair of the PNC Education Committee; received several awards, |
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Kamal Nasir (Kamal Butros Nasir)
Headed the PLO Dept. of Media and National Guidance; served as its spokesman and as editor of its journal Filastin Ath-Thawra (The Palestine Revolution); due to his integrity earned him the nickname “The Conscience”; |
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Musa Nasir
Was elected to two consecutive terms in the Jordanian Parliament as one of the Palestinian representatives; also served as cabinet minister; as Minister of Transport, was responsible for building the Qalandia Airport; |
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Nabiha Nasir
Politically active, advocating Arab unity as a means of facing the imminent threats that were facing the Palestinians; addressed one of the earliest Arab Women’s Conferences in Cairo in 1938 died in 1951. |
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Ibrahim Nasrallah
Worked at the Khaled Shoman Foundation Darat al-Funun, a center for arts and culture in Amman, since 1996, and currently serves as its Director of Cultural Affairs; member of the Jordanian Writers’ Union and the General Union of Arab Writers; |
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Rami Nasrallah
MA in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies; he worked as a journalist until 1993; served as political advisor and Israel Desk Officer at Orient House in Jerusalem from 1993-96; then became Director of the Orient House Special Unit, |
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Talal Nassereddin
Board Chairman of the Palestine Printing and Publishing Co. since March 1993; was co-founder and Board member of PalTrade from June 1997-Aug. 1998; Founding Committee Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Alrafah Bank since Sept. 2005. |
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Salman Natour
Cultural Editor of Al-Jadid, an Arabic language cultural magazine; was a Board member of Adalah (2000-2001) and serves on its Board of Directors since 2003; member of the Committee of Palestinian and Israeli Writers Against Occupation |
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Mustafa Natsheh
Chaiman of Arab Cement Company, elected and deposed deputy Mayor of Hebron (1976-1983). Appointed mayor of Hebron by the PA in 1994. |
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Rafiq Natsheh
PhD from Moscow University; served as the first PLO representative to Saudi Arabia; PLC member (Fateh) for the Hebron district in the Jan. 1996 elections; was appointed PA Minister of Labor from 1998-2002; Minister of Agriculture June 2002. |
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Al-Mutawakel Taha Nazzal
PhD in Arts and Literature -Cairo 2005; Head of the Palestinian Writers Union from 1987-95; Deputy Minister at the PA Ministry of Information from 1994-98; since 1998, serves as head of the Ramallah-based Palestinian House of Poetry; |
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Darwish Nazzal
Chief of Internal Medicine at Maqassed Hospital from 1986; Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Birzeit University from 1988; Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Medical Association from 1991; died on 28 Feb. 2002. |
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Lila Nazzal
PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (1986); Associate Professor of Sociology at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem; co-author with her husband Nafez Nazzal of the Historical Dictionary of Palestine (Scarecrow Press, 1997). |
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Mohammed Nazzal
Began working for Hamas since 1989; became member of the Hamas politburo and was appointed as its representative in Jordan in 1992; was involved in recent inter-Palestinian dialogue on a ceasefire as well as on Palestinian unity talks; |
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Nafez Nazzal
PhD in History from Georgetown University in Washington DC (1974); taught at many universities incl. York College of Pennsylvania, University of California in Los Angeles, the Univ. of South California, Brigham Young Univ., the Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem, |
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Walid Nimr (Abu 'Ali Iyad)
Early Fateh leader (recruited by Khalil Al-Wazir); assumed control of Fateh for a short while when PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat was arrested in 1966, until he was arrested himself; was killed at Ajlun by Jordanian forces in July 1971. |
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Mamduh Nofal
Was among the founders of the DFLP after its split from PFLP in 1969; PNC member since 1971; became military commander of the DFLP in 1972 and served as member of its politburo (until 1988); member of the Palestinian Higher Security Council; |
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Sari Nusseibeh
Academic; political analyst and columnist; graduate from Oxford University (politics, philosophy, economics, 1977) and Harvard University (PhD in philosophy, 1978); Professor of philosophy at Birzeit Univ., 1978-90; Director of Al-Quds Univ. since 1995. |
