Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ruhi al-Khalidi (1864-1913) was a writer, teacher, activist and politician in the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the twentieth century. He was the nephew of Yousef al-Khalidi, who was mayor of Jerusalem from 1899 to 1907. In 1908, he was one of three delegates elected to represent Jerusalem in the new Ottoman government run by the Young Turks and later become the deputy to the head of parliament (1911). The family that Ruhi Khalidi was born into was and still is a very prominent Palestinian family in Jerusalem. The family still runs the Khalidi Library in the Old City of Jerusalem. When the library was first established Ruhi had a hand in making sure the library was more available to the wider public. His interest in French writers contributed to the collection''s literature by Montesquieu and Victor Hugo.