Born in the Old city of Jerusalem, Palestine; October 7 , 1949

Studies at the College De La Salle, Old City of Jerusalem, Palestine

1962 : entrance to the Diocesan Latin (Roman Catholic) Seminary in Beit Jala (near Bethlehem)

1972 : ordained Priest in Jerusalem, Occupied-Territories by Israel

1972 - 1972 : Parish priest assistant at Birzeit (near Ramallah)

- Interim in Jordan, Ader, Kerak

l975 - 1977 : missionary in Southern Sudan ("Fidei donum")

1977 - 1982 : Further Biblical Studies in Rome, Pontifical Biblical Institute

1982 : Doctorate in Biblical Theology ("Individual Salvation in the Psalter")

1984 : Another Doctorate in Biblical Sciences ("Six Arabic Transaltions of the Psalms")

1984 : Responsible for Biblical Apostolate in the Diocese

1989 - 1985: Parish Priest of Beit Sahoor (Shepherds' Field)

1995 : Interim at the Seminary : instructor of New Testament and also of Islamology

1995 - 1996 : Gives some courses at the Jerusalem University College, Mount Zion , especially : Cultural Background of the Bible; Psalms; Islamology and Biblical Aramaic language.

1996 : Chaplain of the De La Salle School Bethlehem and co-ordinator for the Catechesis at the De La Salle Schools in Palestine (Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Jaffa)

1997 : Responsible for the Catechesis in the Holy Land, for the Diocese

Since 1995 instructor at Bethlehem University : Introduction to Christianity; History of the Holy Land.

Knows 14 languages (included Biblical Greeks, Latin, Aramaic and Old Syriac).

Writes regularly in Arab newspapers

-Wrote with Fr. Ya'coob Saadeh :"Faith and Scripture";

Wrote :"Pride and humility of Paul in II Corinthians" several articles about sects, especially "the Jehowah's Witnesses"...