Sari Nutseibeh

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Sari Nusseibeh (born February 12, 1949 in Damascus , Arabic سري نسيبة, DMG Sarī Nusaiba ) is a Palestinian philosopher and politician. From 1995 to 2014 he was president of al-Quds University in Jerusalem .

Sari Nusseibeh at the Leipzig Book Fair , 2012

Life

Nusseibeh grew up in East Jerusalem as the son of a wealthy family and attended St. George's School there . His father Anwar Nusseibeh was a well-known politician. The Nusseibehs have been the guardians of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for centuries .

Sari Nusseibeh studied at Christ Church College in Oxford and at Harvard University , where he worked in Islamic philosophy in 1978 doctorate was ( Ph. D. ). From 1978 to 1990 he taught at the University of Bir Zait . There he became the director of the first staff council. In this role he successfully fought against Israeli influence on the universities, and Bir Zait became the center of resistance against the occupation. As an initial proponent of a common state “Palest-el”, he became a proponent of a two-state solution. However, he always tried to do this by peaceful means, e.g. B. provocative demands to achieve.

From 1988 to 1991, at the time of the First Intifada , he was a member of the governing body of the PLO . He wrote leaflets with Faisal Husseini and took care of the financing of the uprising by organizing donations from abroad and personally acting as a money messenger. While Husseini worked in public and was therefore repeatedly imprisoned, Sari Nusseibeh worked in the background. During the First Gulf War he worked with Shalom Achshaw and campaigned for an end to the attacks on civilians. In January 1991 he was detained in Israel for three months without conviction (administrative detention) on charges of alleged spying for Iraq. Amnesty International campaigned for his release . Together with Mark Heller, he wrote the book No Trumpets, No Drums in 1991 , in which he pleaded for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Before the introduction of Palestinian autonomy, he was the chairman of a committee that laid the basis for future ministries in working groups. After the disappointment about the occupation of these ministries with exiled Palestinians and the administration of Arafat, he largely withdrew from politics and limited himself to his work as university director.

After Faisal Husseini's death, from October 2001 to December 2002 he took over his position as representative of the PLO in Jerusalem. During the Second Intifada , he condemned suicide bombings and called for a demilitarized Palestinian state.

In June 2003, together with Ami Ajalon , he founded the Peoples' Campaign for Peace and Democracy , whose core demands are Israel's withdrawal to the 1967 borders, the establishment of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and the renunciation of the right of return for the Palestinians. As an “open city”, Jerusalem is said to be the capital of both states.

In 2007 he published the autobiographical book Once Upon a Country , which was published in March 2008 under the title Once Upon a Country . A life in Palestine also appeared in German translation.

In the summer of 2008 he called on the Autonomous Authority to dissolve itself and the EU to stop the support payments, as this was all just a fig leaf for the Israeli occupation. This should give Israel a choice: take full responsibility and the occupation costs or release into independence.

In 2011 he published the book What Is a Palestinan State Worth? in which he is very pessimistic about the future of the Palestinians. He believes that Israel will never give up control of the West Bank for historical reasons, which makes a two-state solution impossible. In the introduction he rhetorically suggests that the Palestinians should renounce their own state and strive for a better life as second-class citizens without the right to vote in Israel. But he also doubts that Israel wants to officially establish such a system that “smells” of apartheid . The book was released in February 2012 under the title A State for Palestine? Plea for civil society in the Middle East published in German.

At the end of March 2014, he resigned as President of Al-Quds University, but wants to continue to work there as a professor. The official reason was the retirement age of 65, but the actual reason is likely to be disagreements with the partner university Brandeis, among others . The reason for this was a demonstration by Hamas in November 2013 on the university campus. He is accused of failing to prevent this or of not having reacted appropriately to it.

He is married to the Englishwoman Lucy Austin and has three sons and a daughter.

Awards

Fonts

  • Once upon a time there was a country. A life in Palestine . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-46086-3 (first edition 2008).
  • What is a Palestinian State Worth? Harvard University Press, 2011 - in German A State for Palestine? Plea for a civil society in the Middle East . Kunstmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3888977527 .
  • The Story of Reason in Islam . Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 2016, ISBN 978-0-804-79461-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arafat aide proposes demilitarized state . BBC, January 13, 2002
  2. ↑ Gisela Dachs: The peace initiative of Ami Ayalon and Sari Nusseibeh
  3. ↑ Ha-Aretz from November 16, 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  4. ↑ The Thought Experiment , review by Adam Kirsch, February 16, 2011
  5. ↑ 2011: The year the two state solution died , Ha-Aretz on December 28, 2011
  6. ^ Leading Palestinian moderate retires as East Jerusalem university president , Ha-Aretz on March 27, 2014
  7. ↑ Unloved prophets in their own country . AG Peace Research at the University of Kassel
  8. ^ R. Kaufhold: Amos Oz and Sari Nusseibeh receive the Siegfried Unseld Prize , haGalil.com, October 4, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Nusseibeh, sari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES سري نسيبة (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian philosopher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Damascus