Kamal Nasser was born in 1924, in the town of Bir Zeit in the Ramallah governorate, West Bank. He obtained a bachelors degree in arts and science from the American University of Beirut.
Nasser returned to Palestine in 1945, and taught Arabic literature at the Zion School of Jerusalem. He later taught law at the Institute of Law in Jerusalem. In 1947, he was appointed a teacher of Arabic literature at Al-Ahlia College in Ramallah.
Nasser joined the Arab Socialist Baath Party in 1952.
Nasser was elected a member of the PLO Executive Committee in February 1969, and chaired the PLO National Information and Guidance Department, later becoming the PLO spokesman.
Nasser was martyred on the 10th of April 1973, on Fardan Street in Beirut in an Israeli Intelligence Agency (Mossad) operation. Ehud Barak, who became Israel’s Prime Minister in 1999, led the operation.
Nasser published a prolific collection of writings and poems. His literary works included editorials in the official PLO journal, Falastin Al-Thawra (Palestinian Revolution), of which Nasser was editor-in-chief from its establishment until his martyrdom.
