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Person · Novelist and short-story writer
1938–2020
Born in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, in 1938, he taught school there and in al-Eizariya, and from the early 1960s wrote short stories, novels and plays, one of the New Horizon (al-Ufuq al-Jadid) generation of writers. He took part in the First Intifada and in the civil disobedience for which Beit Sahour became famous, and wrote the novel Intifada, published in 1998. He died in Beit Sahour on 16 December 2020.
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الانتفاضة الأولى
Ongoing activity · not a separate dated incident
A popular uprising across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, from 9 December 1987 to the signing of the Oslo agreement on 13 September 1993: mass demonstrations, strikes and civil disobedience, led on the ground by a clandestine unified leadership.
Took part in the uprising and in Beit Sahour’s civil disobedience
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonJamal Bannoura was born in PlaceBeit Sahour
Role: Born here: 1938, Beit Sahour
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 1938, Beit Sahour
Evidence version:palquest-jamal-bannoura-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonJamal Bannoura participated in EventThe First Intifada
Role: Took part in the uprising and in Beit Sahour’s civil disobedience
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Bannoura participated in the first intifada that erupted in December 1987 and in the acts of civil disobedience that the residents of Beit Sahour came to be famous for during that uprising.”
Evidence version:palquest-jamal-bannoura-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.