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Jamal al-Husayni (1893-1982) was born in Jerusalem and was a member of the influential Husayni family. Husayni served as Secretary of the Palestinian Arab Action Committee (1921-1934) and the Muslim Supreme Council . He was founder and chairman of the Palestine Arab Party and its delegate to the Arab Higher Committee , led by Amin Al-Husayni . During the Great Arab Revolt he escaped first to Syria (1937) and then to Baghdad , Iraq (1939). He led the Arab delegation to the 1939 London Round Table Conference and was Palestinian representative to the Anglo-American Committee Of Enquiry . Husayni was arrested by the British in 1941 and exiled to Southern Rhodesia . He was released at the end of World War II and returned to Palestine in 1946. He was an unofficial delegate to the United Nations in 1947-48. In September-October 1948 he was the foreign minister in the Egyptian-sponsored Government Of All-Palestine . REFERENCES
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