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unusual facts about Palestinian American


Palestinian American

Others came as a result of the tension during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1967 Six-Day War.


Bosra

According to Palestinian American historian Hanna Batatu, the Shia inhabitants of Bosra were "relatively recent arrivals," and immigrated to the town from the city of Nabatieh in South Lebanon.

Jamal Abu-Shamala

Jamal Abu-Shamala (born July 25, 1987 in Shakopee, Minnesota) is a Palestinian American basketball player who formerly played college basketball for the Minnesota Golden Gophers.


see also

Fady

Fady Joudah (born 1971), Palestinian-American poet and physician

Hanna Eady

Hanna Eady is a Palestinian-American actor and playwright best known for co-writing Suhmata, a play about the destruction of the Palestinian Arab village of Suhmata, near Acre in what is now northern Israel.

Hesham Tillawi

Hesham Tillawi is a Palestinian-American writer, TV talk show host, and political analyst living in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Ibrahim Fawal

Ibrahim Fawal (born 1933) is a Palestinian-American academic, former professor, and author of the historical novel On the Hills of God, about the experiences of a young Palestinian man during the Nakba, or "catastrophe" of 1948.

Jess Ghannam

Jess Ghannam is an accomplished Palestinian-American doctor and professor who is active in numerous non-governmental organizations and in carrying out humanitarian work, particularly in the Gaza Strip.

Khaldoun Baghdadi

In 2003, he was appointed to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and in 2006 was elected its Chairman, becoming the first Palestinian-American to hold the post.

Sharafat, East Jerusalem

Ray Hanania, a Palestinian-American journalist, notes that documents attesting to his grandmother's nephew's land ownership rights in Sharafat are at the Ministry of Interior in Jerusalem, but that he has been unable to procure them despite paying them more than two dozen visits since the lands were confiscated in 1970.