Background
Habash was born in Bayt Dajan, near Jaffa, on 10 November 1939.
Habash was born in Bayt Dajan, near Jaffa, on 10 November 1939.
He studied geology and water resources at Ain Shams University in Cairo beginning in 1958 and later in the University of Arizona.
He became a refugee in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, ending up first in Ramallah, then in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. He joined the Baathists in 1952. He was appointed Fateh regional command in Lebanon in October 1972.
He went to exile with Arafat during the 1970s.
He was also a writer, a poet and an artist. Therefore, Habash served as the movement"s general deputy of intellectual affairs
He became a Palestinian nationalist in the early 1960s and joined Fatah in 1962, being responsible for recruitment.
He was a member of the Fateh Central Committee from August 1989 to August 2009, where he served as Fateh"s general deputy of intellectual affairs presented by Yassir Arafat.
