Said Aburish Author

Said Aburish was a Palestinian journalist and writer (1935-2012). Born in Bethany, he moved to Beirut in 1948 upon the creation of the state of Israel. He attended school in Jerusalem and afterwards a Quaker school in Pennsylvania before graduating at Colombia School of Journalism in New York. He carved out a career as a journalist before returning to Beirut in the 1950s as a reporter for Radio Free Europe and The Daily Mail. Over the years, Aburish wrote extensively about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, as well as biographies on three of the most prominent Arabs of the time, Nasser, Arafat and Saddam Hussein.