Emile Jouzy, a native of Jerusalem, moved with his family to Egypt in 1948. He studied hotel catering and tourism management at London Battersea College (which later became the University of Surrey) in the United Kingdom and worked in the hotel industry for sixty years, participating in the outfitting of nearly 200 hotels all over the world. In 1981 he married Nelsy Thomas with whom he has three children. In the past two years he has been assisting Yusef Daher, the chief editor of the Palestine Tourism magazine (published by PALAID).