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4 unusual facts about Salim Tamari


Salim Tamari

When he was three years old, in April 1948, his family fled Jaffa when it was attacked by Jewish paramilitary groups as part of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

He has also served on the refugee committee in the multilateral peace talks held following the Madrid Conference of 1991.

Suad Amiry

When she returned to Ramallah as a tourist in 1981, she met Salim Tamari, whom she married later, and stayed.

Thursday of the Dead

Salim Tamari places Thursday of the Dead three days before Easter Sunday (coinciding with Holy Thursday) and the day after Job's Wednesday (Arabic: Arba'at Ayyub), a quasi-religious mawsim (or seasonal festival) for Muslim peasants involving rituals at the sea.



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