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Musa Nasir
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Person · Educator; president of Birzeit College
Musa Nasir
موسى ناصر1895–1971
Born in Birzeit on 4 April 1895 into a Protestant family, he studied physics at the American University of Beirut and from 1920 served the Mandate as a district officer, while supporting and planning the Birzeit School that his sister Nabiha Nasir founded in 1924, which became Birzeit College in 1942; he was its president until his death. On 30 June 1936 he was among the senior Palestinian officials who petitioned the High Commissioner against Britain’s pro-Zionist policies. He died in Birzeit on 26 August 1971.
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