بتير: Battir: Hasan Mostafa (1914-1961) بتير: حسن مصطفى

رحمك الله يا ابا مازن رحمة واسعة واسكنك فسيح جناته

Thinker, reformer, builder, writer, author, editor, public-speaker, planner, achiever ... Such personal traits accounted for Hasan Mostafa’s character as the best who represented Battir and was its caretaker ... A pioneer for community development and a symbol of social work.
He was born at Battir in 1914 and graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1935. He had occupied several posts: in the Cooperatives Department in Palestine, Al-Rawdha College, Teacher Training College in Baghdad, Far East Radio station in Jaffa as Programs Director, then chief-editor of Al-Muntada Magazine (known later as Al-Qafilah), then as Director for Hebron & Bethlehem area in UNRWA and finally as Director of Social Affairs & Liaison Officer therein. He did make his words into deeds; visions realities. He died at Battir in 1961.