Ziad Ali Khalil AbuZayyad ( ar, زياد علي خليل أبو زياد) (born April 3, 1940) is a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

lawyer, journalist and politician.

Biography

Ziad Ali Khalil AbuZayyad is an attorney at Law who graduated from

Damascus University The University of Damascus ( ar, جَامِعَةُ دِمَشْقَ, ''Jāmi‘atu Dimashq'') is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through ...

in 1965. He is the co-editor and publisher of the quarterly ''Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture'', PIJ.ORG, which he co-founded in 1994 with prominent

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i journalist, Victor Cygielman, as a joint Palestinian-Israeli venture. He is also a weekly columnist of ''Al-Quds'' Arabic daily newspaper. Abuzayyad is also a former member of the

Palestinian Legislative Council The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is the unicameral legislature of the Palestinian Authority, elected by the Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It currently comprises 132 members, e ...

(1996–2006), former Minister of State in the

Palestinian Authority The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; ar, السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية '), commonly known as the Palestinian Authority and officially the State of Palestine,

(1998–2002), and former Deputy Chairman of the Political Committee of the Euro-Med Parliament (2004–2005). He was also the head of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East multilateral peace talks in the Arms Control and Regional Security Working Group (ACRS) from 1994 to 1996. AbuZayyad was an advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team in Washington, DC in 1992, and later a member of the post-

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negotiating team that concluded the 1994 Israeli-Palestinian Agreement ("The Cairo Agreement" that led to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority). He has been imprisoned several times by Israeli authorities; the last was administrative detention for six months (November 1990 to May 1991). Immediately after his release he joined the Palestinian team led by

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to negotiate with

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the arrangements for the

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. In 1986, well before the

Oslo Accords The Oslo Accords are a pair of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993;

, AbuZayyad founded the Palestinian bi-monthly Hebrew language journal ''Gesher (The Bridge)'', of which he was publisher and editor. He is interviewed frequently by

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and international media on current issues of the

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, and participated in numerous regional and international conferences on the

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, and

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. AbuZayyad co-authored ''The West Bank Political Lexicon'', together with prominent Israelis,

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and

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, and co-edited the book ''Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism'' together with Hillel Schenker.

Awards

In 2012, Ziad AbutZayyad was awarded a joint Outstanding Contribution to Peace Award with co-editor

Hillel Schenker Hillel Schenker is co-editor of the '' Palestine-Israel Journal'', a Jerusalem-based independent English language quarterly founded and run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli academics and journalists. Career He was as an editor of New Outlook, ...

at the 8th annual

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in London.International Media Awards - Winners 2012
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References

External links

The Palestine-Israel Journal

Council of Europe Biography Page.
* https://web.archive.org/web/20120604011012/http://internationalmediaawards.org:80/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Abuzayyad, Ziad 1940 births Living people 20th-century Palestinian lawyers Palestinian journalists Palestinian politicians Damascus University alumni Government ministers of the Palestinian National Authority State ministers of Palestine Members of the 1996 Palestinian Legislative Council 21st-century Palestinian lawyers