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Emile Habibi
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Person · Novelist and journalist; a founder of the National Liberation League and of al-Ittihad
Emile Habibi
إميل حبيبي1922–1996
Born in Haifa on 29 August 1922 to a Protestant family, he joined the Palestine Communist Party in 1940, was an announcer on Jerusalem Radio, and in 1944 was a founder of the National Liberation League and of the weekly al-Ittihad. During the Nakba of 1948 he managed to return to Haifa, already occupied, and from 1952 to 1972 represented the Israeli Communist Party in the Knesset. His novel The Pessoptimist (1974) won him wide renown and was translated into sixteen languages. He died in Nazareth on 2 May 1996.
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PersonEmile Habibi was born in PlaceHaifa
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