Yaqub al-Ghusayn
Palestinian politician (1899–1947)
Yaqub al-Ghusayn (Arabic: يعقوب الغصين, Ya‘qoub al Ghussein) (1899–1948) was a Palestinian landowner from Ramla and the founder of the Youth Congress Party.
Early life and education
He got his initial education at the Sultani School in Jerusalem from where he graduated in 1917. He later graduated in law from the University of Cambridge, UK. He worked as an inspector at a railway station until the British Mandate, before moving to the field of business and agriculture.
Family and personal life
He was married to Thuriya Nuseibeh, also a Palestinian noble, and they had 11 children; Talat, Khaled, Abdel-Kareem, Tawfiq, Aida, Khalida, Heya, Motia’a, Khadija, Nuzha and Fatoum.
Political career
Ghusayn was member of different youth societies in Palestine before he himself established the Muslim Youth Society in Ramleh in 1927. He was elected president of the first National Congress of Arab Youth, held in Jaffa in January 1932. He was a member and representative of his party in the Arab Higher Committee from its formation in 1936. In 1937 he became a member of the Supreme Muslim Council. On 1 October of the same year he was exiled by the British to the Seychelles Islands for being a member of the Arab Higher Committee. The Arab Higher Committee was outlawed by the British on 27 September 1937, following the assassination of the Acting British District Commissioner of Galilee, Lewis Yelland Andrews.
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