Known as Abu Bashar, Born in Jaffa. Co-founder o DFLP (with Nayef Hawatmeh), former leader and Deputy Secretary General of the DFLP before broke off relations in 1990. Founder of the Palestinian Democratic Union (FIDA), head of the PLO's information department in Tunis, member of the PLO Executive Committee.

Today, he is a close advisor to Arafat and the Minister of Information and Culture in the PNA.