Career
Exiled during World War I, al-Issa became chief of the royal court in Damascus during King Faisal"s government. During that time, he required the publishers of Damascus-based newspapers to dedicate half of their newspaper columns to the Palestinian cause as perquisite to receiving their monthly salaries. First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Issa was elected to the 7th Congress of the Arab Executive Committee (Atomic Energy Commission) in June 1928 as a representative of Jaffa.
During his time on the committee, he joined the National Defense Party, the opposition to Hajj Amin al-Husayni"s sympathizers on the Atomic Energy Commission. First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Issa hosted several Arab Christian-Orthodox conferences in Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan.
On 29 June 1950, al-Issa died in Beirut, Lebanon. Issa once experienced an assassination attempt in August 1936.
