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Melia Sakakini
Melia Sakakini (1890 – 1966) was a State of Palestine, Palestinian nationalist. She was a headteacher and one of the founders of the Arab Women's Association of Palestine. Life Sakakini was born in 1890. Her elder brother was the Arab Nationalist Khalil Sakakini. She attended a school in Jerusalem before training as a teacher at the college in Beit Jala, Bayt Jala which was organised by the Russians. In 1917-1918 her brother was arrested because of his friendship with a man suspected of being an American spy. Melia visited her brother during his detention. She was a Palestinian Christians, Palestinian Christian. She and Zleikha Shahabi, a Muslim, founded the first Arab Women Union Club in 1921. At the beginning of the British Mandate in Palestine, she led a group of women who marched to the British governor's house to protest against the Balfour Declaration. She had said that they had been ruled for centuries by the Ottoman's but she found British colonialism to be unacceptabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Sakakini
Khalil Sakakini (; 23 January 1878 – 13 August 1953) was a Palestinian teacher, scholar, poet, and Arab nationalist. Biography Sakakini was born into a Palestinian Christian Orthodox family in Jerusalem in the Ottoman Empire on 23 January 1878. His younger sister Melia Sakakini was born in 1890. He received his schooling in Jerusalem at the Greek Orthodox school, at the Anglican Christian Mission Society (CMS) College founded by Bishop Blyth, and at the Zion English College where he read Literature. Later, Sakakini traveled to the United Kingdom and from there to the United States to join his brother Yusif, an itinerant salesman living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During his nine-month stay in America, Khalil Sakakini wrote for Arabic literary magazines on the East Coast, and did translations for Professor Richard Gottheil at Columbia University. He supported himself by teaching Arabic and working in a factory in Maine; he also worked as a street vendor. Upon his return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
