Shafiq al-Hout
Politician and writer
Shafiq al-Hout also spelled Shafik al-Hut was a Palestinian politician and writer. Born in Jaffa, he and his family fled to Beirut at the onset of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. There, al-Hout became a journalist at Al Hawadeth magazine. Wikipedia
Born: January 13, 1932, Jaffa, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Died: August 2, 2009 (age 77 years), Beirut, Lebanon
Education: American University of Beirut