Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

Born in Deir Ghassaneh in 1894, he qualified at the Jerusalem Law Classes in 1924 and later lectured there; he defended without fee the detainees of the al-Buraq disturbances of 1929, and in 1936 the detainees of the Qassam group. A founding member of the Congress of Muslim Clubs in 1928, he was elected that year to the executive committee of the seventh Palestinian Arab Congress. After the Nakba he found refuge in Egypt, and later sat in the Jordanian Senate and Parliament. He died in Jerusalem on 22 June 1965.

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