Nationality Palestinian-American Name Michel Shehadeh | Role Director | |
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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. Michel Shehadeh holds a BA in Journalism and a Masters in Public Policy Administration from California State University, Long Beach.
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