Hanna Mikhail

Hanna Mikhail, nome de guerre Abu Omar, (; 1935–unknown) was a Palestinian scholar and a Fatah member who disappeared in 1976.

Early life and education Mikhail was born in Ramallah, Mandatory Palestine, in 1935. He hailed from a Christian family Hanan Ashrawi is Hanna's cousin.

Mikhail graduated from the Friends School in Ramallah. Then he went to the US for university education when he got a scholarship. His thesis was entitled Politics and Revelation: Mawardi and After, and Mikhail's supervisor was the Israeli Orientalist Nadav Safran. The preface of the book was written by Edward Said. Its Arabic edition was also published. Mikhail also arranged various conferences, festivals, and collaborative committees and was active in the management of the International Solidarity Camp based in Amman to improve the relations between Western Europeans and the Palestinian revolutionaries. However, the fiberglass boat carrying them went missing.

Legacy The PLO gave Mikhail the title of martyr. A seminar entitled Intellectuals and Revolution: On the 40th Anniversary of the Disappearance of Hanna Mikhail (Abu Omar) was organized by the Birzeit University in cooperation with the Institute for Palestine Studies in Birzeit on 22 November 2016.