Emile Toma
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| Born | 1919 Haifa, Palestine |
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| Died | 1985 Haifa, Israel |
Emile Toma (1919-1985), was a political historian and philosopher and thinker. Emile was born in Haifa to an Arab Orthodox family in the year 1919, he studied in the Orthodox School in Haifa then he went to Jerusalem to the Zion College to complete his high school studies.
He joined the Cambridge university and left it in 1939 when the world war 2 started. In that year he joined the Palestinian communists. In 14 May, 1944 the first edition of the "Al-Ittihad" (الاتحاد) newspaper was published and Emile Tuma was its first president and editor.
He was arrested in Lebanon in 1948 and in 1949 he went back to Haifa and continued working as the editor of the "Al-Ittihad" newspaper.in 1965 he joined the eastrization foundation in Moscow where he got his PhD for his book "مسيرة الشعوب العربية ومشاكل الوحدة العربية".
In 1942, along with Dr. Haidar Abdel-Shafi, and the late Mukhlis Amer, Emile Habibi and Mufid Nashashibi, Toma was a founder of the Palestinian National Liberation League. The Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies is named after him. Emile wrote 15 books and hundreds of articles about politics, history and culture.
