Writer Bilal Shalash
Facilitated by Johnny Mansour, PhD

Wednesday, 10 February | 18:00– 19:30
Language: Arabic
Place: Zoom
Link: https://zoom.us/j/96635022579

The book is a study and critical analysis wherein researcher Bilal Mohammad Shalash examines two unpublished manuscripts written by Qassem al-Rimawi (1918–1982), a prominent leader of al-Jihad al-Muqaddas (Army of the Holy War). The first is a 1949 report on al-Jihad al-Muqaddas, submitted by al-Rimawi to the head of the Arab Higher Committee, Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini. The second manuscript, written in the early-1950s, is about Abdel-Qader al-Husseini.

Shalash investigates the shifts in the discourse as they relate to al-Rimawi’s own shift from al-Jihad al-Muqaddas to political work, and to the regional shifts in alliances and socio-political conflicts over the span of a quarter century. 

Bilal Shalash is a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. His current focus is on Palestinian military action during the 1947–49 war, as part of his broader study of the history of modern Palestinian political movements and Palestinian armed resistance.

Johnny Mansour, PhD, was born in Haifa in 1960. He is a historian and lecturer who specialises in Middle East studies. Mansour attained his PhD from St Petersburg University. His research focuses on four areas of study: Modern Islamic and Middle East history; Arab Christians of Palestine and the Middle East; the Arab-Israeli conflict; and Palestinian cities, especially coastal cities.