article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Sami Taha Hamran
Reference metadata and an original summary only. No permission to copy or host the source’s text, photographs, audio or video is asserted.
Person · Labour leader; secretary-general of the Palestine Arab Workers’ Society
Sami Taha Hamran
سامي طه حمران1911–1947
Born into a poor family in Arraba, in the Jenin district, in 1911, he left school when his father died and found work in Haifa through Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim. He became chairman of the Palestine Arab Workers’ Society in 1943 and its secretary-general in 1946, represented it at the World Trade Union Conference in 1945, and was part of the Palestinian delegation to the London conference of January 1947. He was assassinated in Haifa on 11 September 1947.
An introductory profile. The source material below provides the fuller record.
Also recorded as
Sami Taha
Connected events · 0
No events linked in this pilot profile.
Sources for this profile
EVERY RECORD IS PART OF A LARGER STORY
Follow the connections.
Source-backed connectionEvidence link ↗
PersonSami Taha Hamran was born in PlaceArraba
Role: Born here: 1911, Arraba (Jenin district)
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
Inspect 1 evidence reference
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 1911, Arraba (Jenin district)
Evidence version:palquest-sami-taha-biography:v1
References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.