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Ad-Dustour columnist Khairi Mansour passes away
By JT - Sep 18,2018 - Last updated at Sep 18,2018
AMMAN — Ad-Dustour daily’s columnist, Khairi Mansour, passed away on Tuesday. Mansour was born in 1945 in the Deir Al Ghosoun Village, near Tulkarem.
He completed his high school in the West Bank and then studied at the Cairo University. He was expelled by the Israeli authorities from the West Bank in 1967, and left for Kuwait and then settled in Baghdad where he worked as a literary editor at the Iraqi Al Aqlam Magazine.
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