Faris Glubb

Faris Yahya, also Glubb Faris ( born 1939 in Jerusalem, † April 2004 in Kuwait), was a British author and historian of Palestine issue.

Glubb / Yahya was born as the son of John Bagot Glubb and Muriel Rosemary Forbes and the name Godfrey Peter Manley baptized. Later he converted to Islam and called himself Faris. Most of his early years were spent Faris in Jordan. From 1970 he lived in Lebanon. In 2004, he died following a road accident in Kuwait.

The author Glubb / Yahya was in the Arabic-speaking world and beyond, known in English mainly through its three books that deal extensively with Palestine, but also racism in connection with Zionism.

As his main works are:

• Faris Yahya: "The Zionists and Nazi Germany"
• Faris Glubb: "The Palestine Question and International Law" (published by the PLO Research Centre 1970)
• Faris Glubb: " Zionism = Rassism " ( published in 1975 )

The Palestine Research Center in Beirut / Lebanon is responsible for his political legacy and is represented in Germany by the Palestinian Students' Association, the depth information and materials about Glubb, see also Palestine essays No. 47, holds about the Embassy of Palestine.