Nasashibi was elected to the
General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire in
1914, serving until the end of Ottoman Rule in Palestine in 1918. Nashashibi succeeded
Musa Kazim al-Husayni as mayor of Jerusalem in 1920, and was elected to the post in the
1927 Municipal elections. Haym Salomon and Jacob Faradj were elected as vice-mayors. He sought re-election as Mayor and to the City Council in 1934, but lost his seat in the city council to
Hussein Khalidi. He subsequently appealed the results to the Jerusalem District Court. Which ruled in Khalidi's favor in January 1935. Nashashibi was subsequently succeeded as Mayor by Khalidi later that month. He was a leading opponent of the Husayni family in
Palestine. In 1937 he secretly favoured union with
Transjordan. Nashashibi was a founding member of the
Arab Higher Committee and a leader of the
National Defence Party. Following the outbreak of the
Arab–Israeli War, Nashashibi fled to Egypt. He subsequently returned to the
West Bank, and was appointed head of the new
Jordanian ministry for refugees and rehabilitation in August 1949. That September, he was appointed the first Governor-General for Arab Palestine. In 1950 he became Jordanian Minister of Agriculture and later Minister of Transport. He was also appointed as custodian of the Holy Places of Jerusalem with cabinet rank. ==Personal life==