Sam Bahour is an American businessman and entrepreneur.
Early life and education
Bahour was born in
Ohio in 1964, to a
Palestinian father and
Lebanese-American
Lebanese Americans ( ar, أمريكيون لبنانيون) are Americans of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States of America, as well as immigrants from Lebanon.
Lebanese Americans comprise 0.79% of the ...
mother. He moved with his family to the
West Bank in the 1990s following the signing of
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; to become involved in developing the economy of the future
Palestinian state.
He graduated from
Youngstown State University in 1989 with a degree in
computer technology, and subsequently worked for several
American
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* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
software firms, before moving to the
West Bank in 1995.
Career
Since relocating to the West Bank, Bahour has been involved in numerous business development initiatives. He was part of a group of businessmen who established the
Palestine Telecommunications Company
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* State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia
* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
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. He also founded several private businesses, and was part of a plan to open a Western-style shopping center in the West Bank. In addition, he earned an
MBA in a joint program between
Northwestern University in
Illinois and
Tel Aviv University in
Israel.
He has voiced support on Twitter for the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
On 6 April 2021, Bahour, along with American-Israeli professor
Bernard Avishai
Bernard Avishai is an Adjunct Professor of Business at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He lives in Jerusalem and the United States. He has taught at Duke University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Dartmouth College, and wa ...
, addressed
J Street on the topic of the confederation model for resolving the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israelis ( he, יִשְׂרָאֵלִים, translit=Yīśrāʾēlīm; ar, الإسرائيليين, translit=al-ʾIsrāʾīliyyin) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel. The country's populace is composed primarily of Jew ...
.
References
External links
Sam Bahour's webpage & blog
Living people
American people of Palestinian descent
American people of Lebanese descent
1964 births
20th-century American businesspeople
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