Majdalani succeeded Ghawshah as secretary-general on August 8. References External links PPSF Homepage Biography of Samir Ghawshah. 1937 births 2009 deaths Palestinian militants Palestinian dentists Palestine Liberation Organization members People from Jerusalem Palestinian Popular Struggle Front politicians Government ministers of the Palestinian National Authority Palestinian Arab nationalists Labor ministers of the Palestinian National Authority Members of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization 20th-century dentists