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Person · Historian, writer and diplomat
born 1947
Born in Haifa in 1947, he fled with his family in the Nakba and grew up in Beirut. He studied history in Paris, worked for the Institute for Palestine Studies, and in 1982 co-founded the Revue d’études palestiniennes, which he edited. A member of the Palestinian National Council from 1988, he took part in the Madrid conference of 1991 and the talks on refugees that followed, translated Mahmoud Darwish into French, and in 2005 was appointed Palestine’s representative to UNESCO.
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On 30 October 1991 a peace conference opened in Madrid under American and Soviet sponsorship. Palestinians took part within a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, their side headed by Haydar Abd al-Shafi; talks followed on a Palestinian-Israeli and a Jordanian-Israeli track.
Took part in the conference and the negotiations after it
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities
document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
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PersonElias Sanbar was born in PlaceHaifa
Role: Born here: 1947, Haifa
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: Born in Haifa in 1947; was forced to flee with his family in the course of the 1948 Nakba
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonElias Sanbar participated in EventThe Madrid peace conference
Role: Took part in the conference and the negotiations after it
Attributed to PASSIA, Palestinian Personalities.
Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory ↗
PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs · supports · section: was involved in the 1991 Madrid peace conference and the subsequent Washington negotiations as well as in the Multilateral talks on Refugees during 1993-96
Evidence version:passia-palestinian-personalities:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.