| Burhan Dajani | |||||
| Birth Date: | 1920 | ||||
| Birth Place: | Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine | ||||
| Death Place: | Amman, Jordan | ||||
| Occupation: | Academic
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Burhan Dajani (Arabic: برهان الدجاني|Burhān Dajānī; 1921–2000) was a Palestinian academic, jurist and economist. He served as the secretary general of the Beirut-based Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture and taught economics at the American University of Beirut.
Dajani was born in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine, in 1921.[1] He graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1940.[1] He also graduated from the Government Law School in Jerusalem in 1948 obtaining a law diploma.[1]
Following his graduation in 1940 Dajani joined his alma mater as a lecturer and worked there until 1944.[1] He founded a newspaper entitled Al Hadaf in Jerusalem in 1950.[1] He became the secretary general of the Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture based in Beirut in 1957 and held the post for a long time.[2] He was one of the founders of the Institute for Palestine Studies which was established in 1963.[2] [3] The other founders of the institute were Walid Khalidi, Constantin Zureiq and Isam Ashour.[3] Dajani also served as a member of the Arab League economic advisory council. He continued to teach economics at the American University of Beirut.[1] Dajani was also instrumental in the establishment of the academic title Journal of Palestine Studies along with Walid Khalidi, Fuad Sarruf and Constantin Zureiq.[4] He joined the Center for Arab Unity Studies in Beirut as a board member in 1978.[2]
In addition to scholarly articles Dajani coedited a book entitled Economic Interests in the Service of Arab Causes in 1973.[5] His articles were published as a book, The Political, Economic, and Literary Writings of Burhan Dajani, in 2004.
Dajani settled in Amman, Jordan, after his retirement. He died there on 15 September 2000.[6]