Born in Hebron on 31 Aug. 1961; studied in Bulgaria and received a BA and an MA in Sociology; was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli authorities and spent a total of eight years in Israeli jails; member of the Fateh Higher Committee in the West Bank; member of the Fateh Revolutionary Council; was placed three times under administrative detention in the first Intifada for his political activities, the last time for six months in Jan. 1992, when he was due to leave for Washington as a member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks; was elected PLC member (Fateh) for the Hebron District in the Jan. 1996 elections; serves as member of its Legal and Political Committees; was among the negotiators and signatories of the Geneva Accords in Dec. 2003.

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Added: June 2006