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Hamza Haniffa, who passed away this week after a brief illness, was a relentless champion of the Palestinian cause, going back to his undergraduate days at the Peradeniya campus in the late 1950s. Armed with a bachelor’s degree in Western history, he expressed support for some of the liberation movements of the day, including Algeria’s long-drawn-out battle for independence from …

Founder Editor of Al-Islam newspaper Hamzah Haniffa passed away at a Private hospital in Colombo on Monday Jan.7 Hamzah Haniffa, the founder-editor of the Al-Islam newspaper, was a visionary journalist and a steadfast advocate for the Muslim community in Sri Lanka. A proud old boy of Zahira College, Colombo, during the tenure of Dr. A.M.A. Azeez, Hamzah excelled both academically …