[1] He enrolled in Cambridge University but left it in 1939 when World War II started.
[2] In 1944 Touma, Fuad Nassar and Emile Habibi established a new newspaper, Al-Ittihad, which published its first edition on 14 May 1944.
In January 1947 Touma travelled to a conference of Communist parties of the British Empire in London, where he argued against partition of Palestine.
In 1965 he joined the eastrization foundation in Moscow where he got his PhD in History for his dissertation on Arab nationalism, "The March of the Arab Peoples and the Problems of Arab Unity" ("مسيرة الشعوب العربية ومشاكل الوحدة العربية") In 1942, along with Dr. Haidar Abdel-Shafi, and the late Mukhlis Amer, Habibi and Mufid Nashashibi, Touma was a founder of the Palestinian National Liberation League.
He was married to Chaia Karberg, an Israeli ceramic artist of Moldovan-Jewish background.