Khalil al-Sakakini

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Khalil al-Sakakini
Sakakini (second from left) with his family in front of his home in Katamon, Jerusalem 1947

Khalil as-Sakakini ( Arabic خليل السكاكيني Chalil al-Sakakini ; * January 23, 1878 in Jerusalem , Ottoman Empire ; † August 13, 1953 in Cairo , Egypt ) was a Palestinian educator , writer and Arab nationalist .

Life

Khalil as-Sakakini was born in Jerusalem in 1878 to an Arab-Christian family. He received his education in Jerusalem at the Greek Orthodox School , the Anglican School of the Christian Mission Society and the Zion English College. After a nine-month stay in the United States, where he wrote articles for Arabic literary magazines, he returned to Jerusalem and founded a school under the name Dusturiyya ("Constitutional School") in 1909 , in which the principles of reform pedagogy were realized for the first time : there were none Exams, awards and punishments for the students, instead both students and teachers had to evaluate themselves . The focus of the lessons was increasingly on music and sport, and instead of the previous Turkish lessons, lessons were now in Arabic.

In 1917 Sakakini was arrested by Ottoman authorities for harboring his student and friend Alter Levine, a Jewish businessman and spy. Both were extradited to Damascus and were supposed to be hanged there, but were pardoned. Sakakini, who had already written about the Nahda of Orthodoxy in 1913 , lived with Musa Alami , also a student of his, after his release from prison , and joined the Arab revolt . During his mandate in Palestine , he was appointed school inspector in 1926. He founded other schools in Jerusalem, wrote political newspaper articles and built a house in the Katamon district for his family. In the 1930s he became a supporter of Nazism in the hopes that Nazi Germany would weaken the British. He advocated the policy of Adolf Hitler and adopted the idea of ​​the " Jewish world conspiracy " which he had propagated .

In the Palestine War of 1948, a few days before the city was divided into East and West Jerusalem , the Sakakini family were one of the last to flee to Cairo from Jerusalem . There Sakakini was invited by the Egyptian writer Taha Hussein to join the Academy of the Arabic Language .

The sudden death of his son Sari, who died of a heart attack at the age of 39, shook him. He died three months later on August 13, 1953. His two daughters Dumya and Hala returned to Ramallah , where they died at the beginning of the 21st century.

Sakakini's publications are now in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In Ramallah, the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center is named after him.

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SURNAME as-Sakakini, Khalil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sakākīnī, Khalīl; خليل السكاكيني (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1953
Place of death Cairo