User:Karimsalim

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Abdel Karim Salim Sharif (عبد الكريم سليم الشريف)is a Palestinian arab who was born in East Jerusalem, outside the old city, in May 1955 when East Jerusalem was under Jordanian political and administrative control.His father, the late Salim Sharif (سليم الشريف), was a talented journalist by practise who worked for a Palestinian arabic daily newspaper , "Al-Difaa'",which was published in the city of Jaffa when historical Palestine was under British mandate.Upon the outbreak of the 1948 Jewish-Arab war in Palestine Abdel Karim's family,like thousands of Palestinian families, fled the war zone and took refuge in the Palestinian coastal city of Gaza.After the termination of the 1948 Palestine War his father Salim Sharif travelled with his wife and three sons to Egypt from where he travelled again to Jordan in 1950.Salim Sharif continued to work at "Al-Difaa'"arabic daily which had moved from Jaffa city( already lost to Jews in the war) until 1952 when Salim was granted a license to own and publish his own arabic daily " Al-Jihad"(ألجهاد)in East Jerusalem which remained in the hands of the Jordanian army upon the termination of the 1948 war, and which,together with the " West Bank " became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.Salim Sharif's arabic daily "Al-Jihad"(الجهاد)had a nationalistic,Pan-Arab tendency in the sense that it had a pro-Nasser orientation , and as a result it was several times shut down by the-then king of Jordan Hussein who was viewed by socialistic arab regimes as an ultra-conservative monarch whose country served as a buffer zone for Israel.In 1960 Salim Sharif was personally attacked by a Kaloti family lawless gang with knives and suffered serious injuries as a result of which he had to be hospitalized in the French Hospital in Sheik Jarrah for 40 full days(the quarrel broke out because Abdel Rahman Kaloti,who became notorious as robber of a Saudi bank,decided to build his five-storey building adjacent to the wall of the tiny building of "Al-Jihad" arabic daily without leaving any space to separate both buildings). A few months after leaving hospital Salim Sharif had a chance to meet with king Hussein of Jordan, and during that meeting Salim rebuked and insulted the king of Jordan because Jordanian police refused to intervene in the quarrel in which Salim was stabbed several times.By 1964 Salim had had erected for him a three-storey building in the suburb of Beit Hanina north of Jerusalem as well as a three-star 25-room hotel in downtown Jerusalem which he named The Christmas Hotel(فندق كريسماس).In brief Salim Sharif rebuilt himself to become a well-known ,well-to-do journalist of East Jerusalem.He already had by then six sons(of whom Abdel Karim Salim Sharif is the youngest)and no daughters. In December 1965 the PLO,which was created during an arab summit conference in Egypt,rented Salim's three-storey building for three years and used it as its H.Q. In 1966 Salim Sharif launched an alfresco summer restaurant which he named The Garden of Jerusalem(Muntazah Al-Qudsمنتزه القدس).

To be continued ... ! Abdel Karim Salim Sharif Jerusalem : March 26,2010

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