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Musa al-Husayni
Musa Kazim al-Husayni (Arabic: موسى كاظم الحسيني, Musa Kazem al-Ḥussaynī) (Jerusalem, 1853–1934) was nominated to several senior posts in the Ottoman administration. He belongs to the prominent al-Husayni family of northeastern Jerusalem. He was mayor of Jerusalem (1918-1920), chairman of the Palestinian Arab Action Committee and leader of the Palestinian national movement from 1922 until 1934.
Husayni was a graduate from the Istanbul School of Administration and held many administrative positions (among others district Governor of Yemen, 1908) in the Ottoman Empire from which he retired on the eve of World War I.
He was elected president of the Arab Executive Committee at the 3rd Congress in Haifa, 14 December, 1920 and held this position until 1928. He was dismissed from the office of mayor of Jerusalem after his involvement in the 1920 Palestine riots.
Husayni was head and member of the Palestinian Delegations to London in the 1920-30s. He acted as leader of the demonstration protesting Zionist immigration in Jaffa on 27 October, 1933, where he was beaten by the British police which lead to his death on 27 March, 1934..[1]
Personal life
He was the father of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni.
References
- Gelber, Yoav (1997). Jewish–Transjordanian Relations 1921-48: Alliance of Bars Sinister. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-4675-X
- ^ "Vecchie foto contro vecchie bugie" by Maurizio Blondet, EFFEDIEFFE, http://www.effedieffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22156:vecchie-foto-contro-vecchie-bugie-&catid=83:free&Itemid=100021
See also
Mayors of Jerusalem Ottoman Empire (1517–1917) Musa al-Alami (n/a) • Ahmad Agha Duzdar (1838–63) • Abdelrahman al-Dajani (1863–82) • Salim al-Husayni (1882–97) • Yousef al-Khalidi (1899–1907) • Faidi al-Alami (1907–09) • Hussein al-Husayni (1909–17)British Mandate of Palestine (1917–48) Aref al-Dajani (1917–18) • Musa al-Husayni (1918–20) • Raghib al-Nashashibi (1920–34) • Hussein al-Khalidi (1934–37) • Daniel Auster (1937–38) • Mustafa al-Khalidi (1938–44) • Daniel Auster (1944–45)West Jerusalem, Israel (1949–67) Daniel Auster (1949–50) • Zalman Shragai (1951–52) • Yitzhak Kariv (1952–55) • Gershon Agron (1955–59) • Mordechai Ish-Shalom (1959–65) • Teddy Kollek (1965–67)East Jerusalem, Jordan (1949–67) Anwar al-Khatib (1948–50) • Aref al-Aref (1950–51) • Hannah Atallah (1951–52) • Omar Wa'ari (1952–55) • Ruhi al-Khatib (1957–67)
Titular: Ruhi al-Khatib (1967–94) • Amin al-Majaj (1994–98) • Zaki Al-Ghul (1999–)Israel (1967–) Categories:- 1853 births
- 1934 deaths
- Arabs in Ottoman and British Palestine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Mayors of Jerusalem
- Palestinian politicians
- Al-Husayni family
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