Palestinian academic and researcher. Specialises in political science and political economy, part-time professor of political science at Birzeit University. Managing Editor of "Shu'un Filastiniyah".
Sport was a major arena for the early Palestinian struggle against Zionism, with the fight reaching its climax in the 1970s, only to decline swiftly after the Camp David Accords in 1978 which drastically undermined organised Arab solidarity.