Ribhi Kamal

Ribhi Tawfik Kamal (Arabic: ربحی كمال; Hebrew: רבחי כמאל) was a Palestinian writer, teacher, and radio broadcaster. He became known in the Yishuv for his mastery of the Hebrew language. Following the Nakba, Kamal lived in exile in Syria, where he used his knowledge of Hebrew to oppose Zionism while working for the Syrian intelligence service.

Kamal was born in 1913. He was the son of Tawfik Kamal, an imam at Nebi Akasha Mosque on Straus Street in western Jerusalem. After studying at the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Jerusalem, he continued his studies at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He was trained as a teacher at the Faculty of Dar Al-Uloom, Cairo University. At Dar Al-Uloom, he studied philology, Aramaic, and Hebrew.

Kamal, Ribhi. The New Hotel, Beirut, 1975.