Faisal Husseini

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Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini, a former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was born in Baghdad, son of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of local Arab forces during 1948's siege, his grandfather, Ahmad Hammad Pasha al-Husayni, and a relative of Haj Mohammad Al-Husayni. * He studied in Cairo, Baghdad, and Damascus. In 1959, he was a founding member of the GUPS. On the day of its establishment in Jerusalem, Al-Husseini took responsibility for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as deputy head of the Public Relations Department, a position he filled from 1964 to 1965. * He received military education at the Damascus Military College later in 1967, before joining the Palestinian Liberation Army. Al-Husseini founded and served as chairman of the Arab Studies Society in 1979. Israel repeatedly placed him under house and municipal arrest from 1982 to 1987. * He was detained several times from April 1987 to January 1989, but he continued to active in the First Intifada. He became a member of the Supreme Muslim Council of Jerusalem in 1982. "He subsequently, he served as a Palestinian spokesperson, president of the Jerusalem National Council/Palestine, founding member and later chief of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference and subsequent meetings, as well as Palestinian Authority Minister No. 1 without Portfolio. He was most recently appointed Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, but he was based in East Jerusalem. * He died while trying to mend ties between the Kuwaiti government and the PLO, which were unbreakable at the time of the 1991 Gulf War. Journalists characterized Al-Husseini as a pragmatist. * He taught himself Hebrew and appeared regularly on Israeli radio and television shows to clarify the Palestinians' point of view.

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