Summary

Executive Director of the Arab American Action Network and a central figure in Palestinian Chicago’s secular milieu, profiled in Chapter 2 of Lybarger’s book (Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile, PDF p.24).

Details

  • At the July 26, 2014 demonstration against Operation Protective Edge, Abudayyeh told NBC: “The Palestinian people want peace. Absolutely. We always have. But, peace with justice” (quoted from Waldroup 2014) (PDF p.24).
  • Lybarger thanks him in the Acknowledgments for providing insight, institutional access and introductions to project participants (PDF p.18).

Arab American Action Network · Palestinian Chicago