Person · Scholar; member of the Palestine National Council from 1977

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

إبراهيم أبو لغد

1929–2001

Born in Jaffa’s al-Manshiyya quarter on 15 February 1929, he helped found the first nationwide union of Palestinian students in the school year 1947–48. Elected to the Palestine National Council in 1977, he and Edward Said met the US Secretary of State George Shultz on 26 March 1988 to discuss how Palestinians would be represented in negotiations. He died in Ramallah on 23 May 2001, during the Second Intifada.

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Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

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