Jamal al-Husayni , was born in Jerusalem and was a member of the 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

Palestine Arab Party

The Palestinian Arab Party was a political party in Palestine established by the influential Husayni family in 1935. Jamal al-Husayni was the founder and chairman. Emil Ghoury was elected as General Secretary till the end of the British Mandate in 1947...

 and its delegate to the Arab Higher Committee

Arab Higher Committee

The Arab Higher Committee was the central political organ of the Arab community of Mandate Palestine. It was established on 25 April 1936, on the initiative of Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and comprised the leaders of Palestinian Arab clans under the mufti's...

, led by his brother, Amin al-Husayni. During the Great Arab Revolt

Great Uprising

The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine or Great Arab Revolt was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandate Palestine against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration.The revolt consisted of two distinct phases...

 he escaped first to Syria

Syria

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 (1937) and then to Baghdad

Baghdad

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, Iraq

Iraq

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 (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

Southern Rhodesia

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. He was released at the end of World War II

World War II

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 and returned to Palestine in 1946. He was an unofficial delegate to the United Nations

United Nations

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 in 1947-48. In September-October 1948 he was the foreign minister in the Egyptian-sponsored All-Palestine Government

All-Palestine Government

The All-Palestine Government was established by the Arab League on 22 September 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Shortly thereafter, an Arab-Palestinian Congress named King Abdullah I of Transjordan, "King of Arab Palestine"...

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Further reading

• Shahid, Serene Husseini
  Serene Husseini Shahid
  Serene Husseini Shahid was born in Jerusalem as a member of the influential Husayni family. Her father was Jamal al-Husayni, her maternal grandfather was Mayor of Jerusalem Faidi al-Alami, and her maternal uncle was Musa al-Alami....
  
   (Editor: Jean Said Makdisi), (Introduction - Edward W. Said): Jerusalem Memories, Naufal, Beirut
  Beirut
  Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
  
  , 2000. First Edition.http://www.jerusalemites.org/memoirs/women/10.htm (Serene Husseini Shahid (born 1920), is a daughter of Jamal al-Husayni.)