Institute for Palestine Studies

Dr. Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO, member of Fatah’s Central Committee, twice-elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus.

Erekat was born in 1955 in Abu Dis, Jerusalem and completed his higher education in San Francisco State University. He earned a PhD in Political Science from Bradford University in the UK. He then worked as a university lecturer at An-najah National University in Nablus and as a journalist in al-Quds Palestinian newspaper before he began his political work.