Summary
The Young Men’s Muslim Association (YMMA), whose Palestinian branches were stimulated by national-school civic education by 1928, which published Sawt al-Haqq under school-teacher Hamdi al-Husayni, and whose Gaza branch set up night courses to teach workers how to read, in Banko’s account (The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, PDF p.168-169 / printed p.157-158).
Details
- The YMMA and the Arab Scouts formed in rural areas as well as in towns by 1928, in the context Banko gives of civic education imparting concepts of civil rights and civic duties to students (PDF p.168-169 / printed p.157-158).
- Izz al-Din al-Qassam led the Haifa YMMA for a time, and was a member of both the YMMA and the Independence Party (Istiqlal); secret cells in Haifa’s urban shantytowns were formed by him in that milieu (PDF p.177 / printed p.166, PDF p.184 / printed p.173).
Related pages
The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Independence Party