Michel Shehadeh

Michel Shehadeh
Born	Amman, Jordan
Nationality	Palestinian-American
Education	California State University, Long Beach
Occupation	Director, community leader

Michel Shehadeh born in 1956, in Amman, Jordan), to a Palestinian Christians family, is the Palestinian-American executive director of the Arab Film Festival and the former Western Regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (1996-2003).

The Palestinian raised Shehadeh relocated to the United States for college in 1975. In 1987, he became the target of investigation by the US Government as a suspected abettor of "terrorists", one of the media-dubbed "Los Angeles Eight", but Shehadeh and the other seven individuals were cleared of charges in 2007.^[1]

References

1. ^ "The Case of the LA8: U.S. Drops Twenty-Year Effort to Deport Arab Americans for Supporting Palestinian National Rights". Democracy Now. 2008-11-02. http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/2/the_case_of_the_la8_u. Retrieved 2009-04-09. 

External links

• Michel Shehadeh, IMEU
• Arab Film Festival

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