Person · Educator; principal of the Arab College in Jerusalem

Khalil Totah

خليل طوطح

1886–1955

Born in Ramallah on 20 May 1886 to Quaker parents, he studied at the Friends’ schools, in Jerusalem and in the United States, at Clark College and Columbia’s Teachers College, and in 1912 returned to be principal of the Friends Boys’ Training School in Ramallah. From 1919 to 1925 he was assistant principal and then principal of the Men’s Teacher Training College in Jerusalem, later the Arab College. He died at Whittier, California, on 24 February 1955.

An introductory profile. The source material below provides the fuller record.

Also recorded as

Khalil Abdallah Totah

Connected events · 0

No events linked in this pilot profile.

Sources for this profile

article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies

Khalil Totah

Published: date not recordedConsulted: 2026-10-01

Reference metadata and an original summary only. No permission to copy or host the source’s text, photographs, audio or video is asserted.

EVERY RECORD IS PART OF A LARGER STORY

Follow the connections.

Back to the map ↗