Nassib David Bulos (Boulos) was born in Acre, at that time Palestine, now Israel, on 8th March 1920. He was educated partly in Beirut, Lebanon, and as of 1936 in Jerusalem itself. He was admitted to the Law Faculty of Jerusalem in 1940 and was called to the Bar in 1946. He opened law offices in Jerusalem which were not particularly active because the situation had degenerated to a point where law and order had virtually ceased. At that point he moved to newspaper work and he worked for a number of international newspapers and magazines such as: Time and Life, the Kemsley Press and the New York Times.
Because of his newspaper work he followed very closely the events which took place between 1945 and 1948 in Palestine.
ln the Summer of 1949 he acted as the spokesman for the Palestinian Refugee Delegation to the Lausanne Conference conducted by the Palestine Conciliation Commission, and he took part in the events of the Conference for a period of four months, when he came to the conclusion that further discussions would be futile and a waste of time. He dealt with this period in his first book, « A Palestinian Landscape« . This book was published locally in 1998.
Nassib then returned to Jerusalem and from there he moved to Beirut and he was appointed by the United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) as adviser on Arab and refugee affairs. He stayed with the United Nations for some four years and then left to open a legal practice in Beirut which has been very successful. In his late years, he remained a member of his law firm, but on semi-retirement basis. In the late fifties, he lectured for three years at the Lebanese University on jurisprudence and legal history.
He has also written a considerable number of political commentaries on the situation prevailing in the Middle East, of which some 150 articles were published in the Beirut English newspaper « The Daily Star« .

Nassib Bulos has also been chairman of the Golf Club of Lebanon from 1999 to 2001 and for several other years vice-president and a founding member.

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