Notable Palestinians — Jaffa

Notable Palestinians — Jaffa

• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938–present) — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, born on 22 April 1938 in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine, is a Palestinian-Jordanian…
• Issa El-Issa (1878–1950) — Issa Daoud El-Issa (1878-1950) was a Palestinian journalist, poet, and editor widely regarded as one…
• Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929–2001) — Ibrahim Abu-Lughod was born in Jaffa in 1929 into a family that ran a metal foundry, and as a youth…
• Ismail al-Faruqi (1921–1986) — Ismail Raji al-Faruqi was a Palestinian-American philosopher and scholar of comparative religion, wi…
• Hisham Sharabi (1927–2005) — Hisham Bashir Sharabi was born in Jaffa in 1927 and educated at the American University of Beirut, w…
• Zahi Khouri (1938–present) — Zahi W. Khouri was born in 1938 into a Palestinian Christian family in Jaffa, then in Mandatory Pale…
• Salim Tamari (1945–present) — Salim Tamari is a Palestinian sociologist and one of the foremost social historians of late Ottoman…
• Tamam Al-Akhal (1935–2024) — Tamam Al-Akhal (born 1935 in Jaffa) is one of the first formally trained Palestinian women artists a…
• Abdel Mohsen Qattan (1934–2014) — Abdel Mohsen Qattan was born in 1934 in Jaffa and grew up in a prosperous Palestinian merchant famil…
• Adam Bakri (1988–present) — Adam Bakri is an internationally recognized Palestinian actor who achieved a remarkable debut on the…
• Suzanne Al Houby (1966–present) — Suzanne Al Houby is a Palestinian mountaineer who made history as the first Arab woman to climb Moun…
• Ibrahim Hassan Sirhan (1915–present) — Ibrahim Hassan Sirhan is widely regarded as the founding father of Palestinian cinema, the first Pal…