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Nablus was home to some of the  

Nablus was home to some of the  

most prominent Arab nationalists: 'Awni 'Abd al-Hadi and Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza, leaders of the Istiqlal Party, and Ahmad Shuqayri, the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, 1964). Cohen also reported about trends in other major towns with large Arab populations (i.e. Haifa).</small></blockquote></ref> educator, historian, author and an extremist, born in Nablus.  One of the leaders of the Arab nationalism movement in "Greater Syria",<ref>The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mj3LCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA399 p.399].</ref> one of the leaders of the Arab Higher Committee and its secretary.  He was one of the founders of the pan-Arab movements Al-Fatah and the Al-Istiqlal party (he served as a representative to the Supreme Arab Committee and secretary of the committee in 1936).  He advocated against the mandate rule and against Zionism.  As a close relative of the Husseini family, he served many times as a messenger and spokesman for the mufti of Jerusalem, [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]].<ref>Ya'akov Shimoni, Arabs of the Land of Israel [Heb.], Tel Aviv 2017, p. 289n22, p. 297.</ref>

most prominent Arab nationalists: 'Awni 'Abd al-Hadi and Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza, leaders of the Istiqlal Party, and Ahmad Shuqayri, the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, 1964). Cohen also reported about trends in other major towns with large Arab populations (i.e. Haifa).</small></blockquote></ref> educator, historian, author and an extremist, born in Nablus.  One of the leaders of the Arab nationalism movement in "Greater Syria",<ref>The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mj3LCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA399 p.399].</ref> one of the leaders of the Arab Higher Committee and its secretary.  He was one of the founders of the pan-Arab movements Al-Fatah and the Al-Istiqlal party (he served as a representative to the Supreme Arab Committee and secretary of the committee in 1936).  He advocated against the mandate rule and against Zionism.  As a close relative of the Husseini family, he served many times as a messenger and spokesman for the mufti of Jerusalem, [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]].<ref>Ya'akov Shimoni, Arabs of the Land of Israel [Heb.], Tel Aviv 2017, p. 289n22, p. 297.</ref>

A leader of the Arab nationalist movement.

A leader of the Arab nationalist movement.