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Aref al-Aref
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Person · Historian; the dean of Palestinian historians
Aref al-Aref
عارف العارف1892–1973
Born in Jerusalem in 1892, he studied at Istanbul University and in 1913 warned in Filastin that the Zionists were taking the country village by village. Under the Mandate he served as a district officer in Jenin, Nablus, Baysan and Jaffa, for ten years from 1929 in Bir al-Sabi‘, then in Gaza and Ramallah, and wrote histories of Bir al-Sabi‘ and its tribes, of Gaza and of Jerusalem. Having recorded the Nakba as he witnessed it, he wrote its history in six volumes. He died in Ramallah in 1973.
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PersonAref al-Aref was born in PlaceJerusalem
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