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Musallam Bseiso

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “well-known palestinian thinker”. Today it says “palestinian journalist and politician”.
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Musallam Wajih Bseiso (born January 10, 1926) ( ) is a well-known Palestinian thinker, intellectual, journalist, and politician. Born in Bisan , Palestine , he attended school in Beersheba and Gaza , finally graduating from school in Jerusalem . From the rise of his youth, he worked in and participated in the creation of numerous Jordanian and Arab newspapers. At an early age, he was already writing for the Haifa and Jerusalem newspapers. Additionally, he was a correspondent stationed in Gaza for a number of newspapers in the 1940s, including the Associated Press ( 1948 ), the Egyptian " Al-Ahram ", and the Jordanian "Al-Nasr". In 1951 , he founded his own newspaper, Al-Hawadeth ( ), in Jordan. Two years later, in 1953 , Musallam Bseiso was elected as secretary of the Jordanian Press Syndicate. Bseiso is still actively involved in issues pertaining to the liberation of Palestine culturally, politically, and in the media.1

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well-known palestinian thinker

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palestinian journalist and politician

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