Henry Cattan (1906–April 17, 1992) was a Palestinian jurist and writer who wrote extensively on legal issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the 1900s and was a prominent advocate for the state of Palestine.
[1][2] Cattan was born in early 1906 in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire Palestine.
[2] After qualifying as a barrister, Cattan established a legal practice in Jerusalem in 1932.
[2] Cattan later wrote two books on the subject in 1967: The Law of Oil Concessions in the Middle East and North Africa and The Evolution of Oil Concessions in the Middle East and North Africa.
[3] Cattan was a member of the delegation which represented the Arab Higher Committee before the United Nations General Assembly[1] in 1947 and 1948.