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Nasser Abufarha

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian-american scholar and founder of the palestine fair trade association”. Today it says “palestinian-american anthropologist and social entrepreneur”.
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Nasser Abufarha Nasser Abufarha is a Palestinian-American scholar and founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association .1 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 .2 Abufarha has also been an advocate of a binational or one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict .3 His first book will be published by Duke University Press in 2009 entitled The Making of a Human Bomb .4

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palestinian-american scholar and founder of the palestine fair trade association

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palestinian-american anthropologist and social entrepreneur

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