death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
haifa , israel 27 august 1985 haifa , british mandate of palestine 16 march 1919 emile touma
 emile touma
emile touma

emile touma -lrb- arabic : إميل توما , hebrew : אמיל תומא , born march 16 , 1919 - died aug. 27 , 1985 -rrb- , was a palestinian political historian , journalist and theorist .
emile was born in haifa to an arab orthodox family in 1919 .
he attended the orthodox school in haifa , then went to jerusalem to the zion college to complete his high school studies .
he enrolled in cambridge university but left it in 1939 when world war ii started .
in that year he joined the palestinian communists .
in 1944 touma , fuad nassar and emile habibi established a new newspaper , `` al-ittihad '' , which published its first edition on 14 may 1944 .
he was arrested in lebanon in 1948 .
in 1949 he returned to haifa and continued working as editor-in-chief of `` al-ittihad '' .
in 1965 he joined the eastrization foundation in moscow where he got his phd in history for his dissertation on arab nationalism , `` the march of the arab peoples and the problems of arab unity '' -lrb- '' مسيرة الشعوب العربية ومشاكل الوحدة العربية '' -rrb- in 1942 , along with dr. haidar abdel-shafi , and the late mukhlis amer , habibi and mufid nashashibi , touma was a founder of the palestinian national liberation league .
he wrote 15 books and hundreds of articles about politics , history and culture .
