Zaki al-Ghul

Zaki al-Ghul
زكي الغول
Titular Mayor of East Jerusalem
In office
1999 – 28 April 2019
Preceded byAmin al-Majaj
Succeeded byVacant
Personal details
Born1926 (1926)
Silwan neighborhood, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Died28 April 2019(2019-04-28) (aged 92–93)
Amman, Jordan
Alma materPalestinian Institute of Law
John F. Kennedy University

Zaki Ali Khader al-Ghul (Arabic: زكي علي خضر الغول; 1926 – 28 April 2019) was a Palestinian politician based in Jordan.[1]

Life and education

Zaki Ali Khader al-Ghul was born in 1926 in Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood. He graduated from the Palestinian Institute of Law in 1948 and achieved a doctorate from John F. Kennedy University in 2006.[2]

Mayor of East Jerusalem

From 1999 until his death in 2019, al-Ghul served as the titular mayor of East Jerusalem. Due to the forced shutting down of all councils related to the East Jerusalem municipal services by Israeli authorities, al-Ghul held what constituted a purely formal position or title without any practical or real authority.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Zaki al-Ghul". All4Palestine. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  2. ↑ "منتدى الفكر العربي يكرم أمين مدينة القدس". Al Jazeera. 6 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Klein, Menachem (2001). Jerusalem: The Contested City. London: C. Hurst & Co. p. 197. ISBN 1-85065-575-8.
  4. ↑ Reiter, Yitzhak (2008). Jerusalem and Its Role in Islamic Solidarity. Ney York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-230-60782-8.
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