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Nasser Abufarha Nasser Abufarha is a Palestinian-American scholar and founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association .1He was born in 1964 in Al-Jalama , a small farming village near Jenin , at the northern tip of the West Bank . He currently lives in the United States . After first studying in Canada , he traveled to the United States , where an earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 1989 . Abufarha went on to earn a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and International Development from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006 . In 2004 , Abufarha developed the first internationally-recognized standard for fair trade olive oil and established the Palestine Fair Trade Association . He also established Canaan Fair Trade , the largest exporter of certified fair trade and organic Palestinian olive oil to the United States and Europe .2Abufarha has also been an advocate of a binational or one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict .3His first book will be published by Duke University Press in 2009 entitled The Making of a Human Bomb .4
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Nasser Abufarha Nasser Abufarha is a Palestinian-American businessman.He is the founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association . He was born in 1964 in Al-Jalama , a small farming village near Jenin , at the northern tip of the West Bank . He currently lives in the United States . After first studying in Canada , he traveled to the United States, where an earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 1989. Abufarha went on to earn a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and International Development from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006. In 2004, Abufarha developed the first internationally recognized standard for fair trade olive oil and established the Palestine Fair Trade Association. He also established Canaan Fair Trade , the largest exporter of certified fair trade and organic Palestinian olive oil to the United States and Europe . His book, The Making of a Human Bomb , was published by Duke University Press in 2009.
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Palestinian-American businessman ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Nasser Abufarha Nasser Abufarha is a Palestinian-American businessman. He is the founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association . He was born in 1964 in Al-Jalama , a small farming village near Jenin , at the northern tip of the West Bank . He currently lives in the United States . After first studying in Canada , he traveled to the United States, where an earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 1989. Abufarha went on to earn a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and International Development from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006. In 2004, Abufarha developed the first internationally recognized standard for fair trade olive oil and established the Palestine Fair Trade Association. He also established Canaan Fair Trade , the largest exporter of certified fair trade and organic Palestinian olive oil to the United States and Europe . His book, The Making of a Human Bomb , was published by Duke University Press in 2009.
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Palestinian-American businessman ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Nasser Abufarha Nasser Abufarha is a Palestinian-American anthropologist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Canaan Fair Trade and the Palestine Fair Trade Association —a network of small-scale family farms organized under fair trade and organic production, active in 54 villages across the West Bank with 1500 members.His book, The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance , was published by Duke University Press in 2009.
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palestinian-american anthropologist and social entrepreneur
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