Fahmi al-Husseini

Fahmi Bey al-Husseini (, 1886 – December 25, 1940) was the mayor of Gaza, his hometown, from 1928 to 1939 while Palestine was under the British rule.

On December 1, 1923, he launched al-Haquq ("The Rights") magazine and was its editor-in-chief. Al-Husseini published the Sawt al-Haq ("Voice of the Truth") newspaper on October 6, 1927 and around the same period he translated into Arabic the famous Hanafi book on legal proceedings, Sharh Majallat al-Ahkam ("Commentaries on the Codified Hanafi Commercial Law", prepared in four volumes in Turkish during the Ottoman period by Allama Ali Haidar.

Mayor Also in 1927, al-Husseini, a political ally of the Nashashibi family, became a member of the Liberal Party which was founded in 1927, which defended all aspects of personal freedom. He was elected mayor of Gaza on May 5, 1928. However, during his tenure, Gaza was extended to the coast (Rimal district), the local hospital and market were completed, the streets were widened, and the city received electricity in 1938 in cooperation with the Palestinian Electricity Company. Al-Husseini also oversaw the establishment of the municipal hall of Gaza along Omar Mukhtar Street. In addition to the latter street—which he named after the Libyan revolutionary Omar Mukhtar—he also named several other new streets in Gaza including Imam Shafi'i Street, Firas Street, and Jamal Fahmi Pasha Street.

In 1938, during the Arab revolt in Palestine, the British Mandate authorities had him arrested on charges of being a member of the anti-British leadership in Palestine. He, along with Mousa Sourani, was imprisoned in the Sarafand Jail. Al-Husseini was stripped of his post as mayor by the British in 1939 and was replaced by Rushdi al-Shawa. Al-Husseini died on December 25, 1940.