Huwaida Arraf

Huwaida Arraf

Huwaida Arraf (born 1976 in Detroit, Michigan) is a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian organization. The stated mission of the ISM is to resist the Israeli occupation using nonviolent tactics. Arraf is married to Adam Shapiro, another ISM co-founder, whom she met while both were working at the Jerusalem center of "Seeds of Peace", an organization that seeks to foster dialogue between Jewish and Palestinian youth.

Arraf, who is Christian, is the daughter of a Israeli Arab father and a Palestinian mother. Arraf majored in Arabic and Judaic studies and political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also spent a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and studied Hebrew on a kibbutz.

External links

* [http://www.radioproject.org/sound/MakingCon_061220_Ax.mp3 National Radio Project] 11 minute interview aired 20 December 2006
* [http://www.palsolidarity.org/ International Solidarity Movement] (official)
* [http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/about-ism/faq/ ISM FAQ's]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,966226,00.html Guardian article] about Arraf, Adam Shapiro and the ISM


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