The prolific, American educated, Palestinian journalist, Said K. Aburish, died on August 29 in the Arab village of El-Azariyeh on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives.

Said Khalil Aburish was born in El-Azariyeh on May 1, 1935. Aburish attended school as a youth in Beirut and Jerusalem before receiving further education in the United States.