Emile Toma
| Emile Tuma | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1919 Haifa, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died |
1985 Haifa, Israel |
Emile Toma (1919-1985), was a Palestinian political historian and philosopher and thinker.
Emile was born in Haifa to an Arab Orthodox family in 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 II started. In that year he joined the Palestinian communists. In 1944 Tuma, Fuad Nassar and Emile Habibi established a new newspaper, Al-Ittihad, which published its first edition on 14 May 1944.
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"("The March of the Arab Peoples and the Problems of Arab Unity.")
In 1942, along with Dr. Haidar Abdel-Shafi, and the late Mukhlis Amer, Habibi and Mufid Nashashibi, Toma was a founder of the Palestinian National Liberation League. Emile wrote 15 books and hundreds of articles about politics, history and culture. The Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies, established in 1986, is named after him.