Dr. Abdul-Ghaffar Musa, born in the village of Abasseyeh in 1939, experienced the Nakba firsthand as an eight-year-old in 1948. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba on May 18th, The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center will host a conversation featuring Dr. Musa and his daughter, human rights attorney Jumana Musa. They will discuss Dr. Musa’s experience witnessing the Nakba, the expulsion of his family from Abbasiya, and his enduring desire to return after decades of dispossession and exile.

About Dr. Musa

Dr. Abdul-Ghaffar Musa was born in Abasseyeh, Palestine in 1939. Along with his family he fled his village under gunfire during Al-Nakba in 1948 and was raised in Al-Nuwaimeh camp. He received an UNRWA scholarship to the American University of Beirut and completed his University and Medical training there. He then worked at the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) for five years before moving to the United States where he completed his training as a GYN Oncologist. He treated cancer patients for 37 years in Syracuse, New York where he was also Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

He now lives in Great Falls, VA with his beautiful wife, Sultana Musa, and enjoys spending time with his three children and five grandchildren.