Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari

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Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari
محمد نمر الهواري
Muhammad al-Hawari in 1947
President of the General Refugee Congress
In office
17 March 1949 – Unknown
Personal details
Born1908 (1908)
Nazareth, Ottoman Empire
Died11 July 1984(1984-07-11) (aged 75–76)
Nazareth, Israel
Citizenship Ottoman Empire
 Mandatory Palestine
 Kingdom of Egypt
 State of Israel
Known forAl-Najjada

Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari (

refugee affairs. Hawari returned to Palestine and years later became judge in the District Court of Nazareth.[5]

In 1955, Muhammad Nimr Al-Hawari wrote and published a significant historic book titled, Sir Al-Nakba [The Secret Behind the Nakba]. As well as his native Arabic, Al-Hawari was fluent in English and Hebrew.[1]

General Refugee Congress

The first meeting of the

Palestinian representation, invited Al-Hawari to come and appear before the PCC.[3]

At informal meetings at the Lausanne peace talks during May 1949, Al-Hawari as head of the Palestinian refugee delegation put forward to

Palestinian state or annex the West Bank to Israel.[3]

The failure of the attempt by al-Hawari, Yahya Hammuda, ‘Aziz Shihada, Sa’id Baidas and Francis Jelad to win a role for the independent refugee delegation at the Rhodes armistice talks in February 1949 and the subsequent Lausanne talks was an early demonstration of the weakness of the Palestinian Arab people to replace the previous leadership structure destroyed by the collapse of the Palestinian society during the 1948 conflict.[8] Although efforts were made to gain formal recognition of the GRC as a negotiating body and political representative of the Palestinian people. The Jordanian Government gradually marginalized the GRC until it withered away. Leaving Palestinian society fractured and fragmented.[9][10]

All Palestine Government

Egypt sought the aid of Al-Hawari in early 1950 to strengthen the Mufti’s political position, A-Hawari did not comply.[11]

Iqrit

Al-Hawari was involved with the first legal action against the state of Israel in 1951 on behalf of 5 men of the village of Iqrit. Al-Hawari acting as their lawyer was instrumental in gaining the right of return for the men of Iqrit. On 31 July 1951 the Israeli courts recognized the rights of the villagers to their land and their right to return to it. The court said the land was not abandoned and therefore could not be placed under the custodian of enemy property.[12]

Published works

  • Sir al-Nakba (The Secret Behind the Disaster), Nazareth – 1955

Footnotes

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-7146-3439-5
    , p. 129
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-300-12696-9
    , pp. 88-89.
  3. ^
    ISBN 1-85043-819-6
    , p. 223
  4. ISBN 0-521-00967-7
    , p. 111
  5. ISBN 978-1-85168-467-0
    , p.122
  6. ISBN 0-7146-3120-5
    , p. 20
  7. ISBN 0-521-00967-7
    , p. 559
  8. ISBN 0-19-829643-6
    , p. 35
  9. ^ Why Palestinian Nationalism? Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine The Social, Economic, and Political Context after 1948
  10. ISBN 0-19-829643-6
    , p. 36
  11. ISBN 978-0-19-829459-7
    , p. 391.
  12. ^ Joseph L. Ryan, S.J.[permanent dead link] "Refugees within Israel: The Case of the Villages of Kafr Bir'im and Iqrit" in 2, no. 4 (Sum. 73): 55-81.

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