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| − | '''Fuad Saleh Saba''' [فؤاد سابا] (born in 1902 in Shafa Amr - died in 1984 in Beirut) was an Atab "Palestinian" economist. He established the first Arab auditing firm in the Middle East. He established his accounting office in Jerusalem in 1926. Then he opened other branches in Haifa, Jaffa, Beirut, Amman and Damascus.<ref>Passia, Saba, Fuad (1902-1984)</ref><ref>Seth J. Frantzman; Benjamin W. Glueckstadt; Ruth Kark (2011). "The Anglican Church in Palestine and Israel: Colonialism, Arabization and Land Ownership". Middle Eastern Studies. 47 (1): 106. JSTOR 27920343.</ref> | + | '''Fuad Saleh Saba''' (Fouad Saba) [فؤاد سابا] (born in 1902 in Shafa Amr - died in 1984 in Beirut) was an Atab "Palestinian" economist. He established the first Arab auditing firm in the Middle East. He established his accounting office in Jerusalem in 1926. Then he opened other branches in Haifa, Jaffa, Beirut, Amman and Damascus.<ref>Passia, Saba, Fuad (1902-1984)</ref><ref>Seth J. Frantzman; Benjamin W. Glueckstadt; Ruth Kark (2011). "The Anglican Church in Palestine and Israel: Colonialism, Arabization and Land Ownership". Middle Eastern Studies. 47 (1): 106. JSTOR 27920343.</ref> |
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| | He was a leading politician in [[Mandatory Palestine]] who attempted to end the Jewish settlement in Palestine. However, he was already termed an [[Anti-Semite]] in 1921.<ref>Ghandour, Z. B. (2009). A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DTh6AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA132 p.132]</ref> | | He was a leading politician in [[Mandatory Palestine]] who attempted to end the Jewish settlement in Palestine. However, he was already termed an [[Anti-Semite]] in 1921.<ref>Ghandour, Z. B. (2009). A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DTh6AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA132 p.132]</ref> |
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| | [https://books.google.com/books?id=jM1tAAAAMAAJ&q=%22fuad%22+%22Saba%22 p.212]</ref> | | [https://books.google.com/books?id=jM1tAAAAMAAJ&q=%22fuad%22+%22Saba%22 p.212]</ref> |
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| | + | [[File:Britain Hits At Terrorism In Holy Land. 10.1.37.jpg|thumb|Britain Hits At Terrorism In Holy Land. 10.1.37]] |
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| | On September 26, 1937, Lewis Yelland Andrews (1896-1937), the British District Commissioner for the Galilee during the British Mandate for Palestine, was assassinated by Arab gunmen. | | On September 26, 1937, Lewis Yelland Andrews (1896-1937), the British District Commissioner for the Galilee during the British Mandate for Palestine, was assassinated by Arab gunmen. |
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| | Fuad Saba, Higher Committee secretary; and Yacoub Hussein, Arab Youth Federation president. Within 48 hours the trouble- makers looked on their native land for the last time; prisoners on the cruiser Sussex, they sailed from Haifa...</small></blockquote></ref> while the [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem|Grand Mufti]] al-Husseini is hiding on [[Temple Mount]], escaping later on to Lebanon. | | Fuad Saba, Higher Committee secretary; and Yacoub Hussein, Arab Youth Federation president. Within 48 hours the trouble- makers looked on their native land for the last time; prisoners on the cruiser Sussex, they sailed from Haifa...</small></blockquote></ref> while the [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem|Grand Mufti]] al-Husseini is hiding on [[Temple Mount]], escaping later on to Lebanon. |
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| − | Since the [[1948 Israeli War for Independence]], Fuad Saba was in Lebanon.
| + | The four were deported to the Seychelles.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6EhAAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA44 The Windsor Daily Star Mar 4, 1938]. |
| | + | "Exiled Arab Heads Refused Visitors"</ref> |
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| | + | By 1939 he was among eight Arab representatives in London.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uDU1AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3 The Glasgow Herald Jan 17, 1939, p.3].</ref> |
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| | + | He was active in 1946<ref>Marlowe, J. (1946). Rebellion in Palestine. United Kingdom: Cresset Press, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jM1tAAAAMAAJ&q=%22fuad%20saba%22 p.212]. |
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| | + | <bloockquote><small>...if the British Government were prepared to negotiate at all under such conditions, it should have insisted on negotiations with the Mufti direct. |
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| | + | The Arab Higher Committee, which reconstituted itself as such in Beirut, arrived at an agreement with the Mufti as to the personnel of the delegation that should proceed to London. Jamal Husseini was to lead the delegation as the Mufti's representative. The rest of the delegation was to consist of Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, Hussein Khalidi, Alfred Rock, Musa al Alami, with George Antonius and Fuad Saba as secretaries as secretaries. The first four named were all members of the old Higher Committee, Musa al Alami had been a Government official, Fuad Saba had been secretary of the Higher Committee, George Antonius was a scholar...</small></blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | Following the [[1948 Israeli War for Independence]], Saba was naturalized Lebanese,<ref> |
| | + | Dictionnaire historique de comptabilité des entreprises. (2016). France: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gnBTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303 p.303].</ref> lived there since.<ref>The Arab Economist. (1977). Lebanon: Center for Economic, Financial and Social Research and Documentation, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hNQWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22fouad%20saba%22 p.22].</ref> |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |