Fayyad Sbaihat (Arabic: فياض صبيحات) born in Jenin, Palestine, is a Palestinian-American writer and blogger.

Life

As a student activist, Fayyad focused on corporate ethics, social responsibility in investing, and human rights. In line with a movement modeled after the anti-apartheid corporate divestment campaign directed at Apartheid South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.

He became one of the leaders of and the national spokesperson of the Palestine Solidarity Movement,[1] the umbrella organization that coordinates the divestment campaign across the US colleges.[2] Fayyad later wrote a divestment handbook titled "Fighting the New Apartheid".

While in college, Fayyad contributed a regular column to the student newspaper The Badger Herald, covering a variety of political issues, but focusing on the Middle East.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Duke News & Communications | Palestine Solidarity Movement conference at Duke". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  2. ↑ https://natassembly.org/July_10_Conference.html%5B%5D
  3. ↑ "You searched for customsearch.PHP · the Badger Herald".

See also

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