Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American businessman (was building a shopping center chain in Palestine until shut down by the illegal Israeli actions of the past year), living in the besieged Palestinian suburb of Al-Bireh (suburb of Ramallah), in the illegally Israeli occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Sam became a personal friend of Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Childrens Alliance when he invited her and a Berkeley contigent to come help him protest an armaments factory in (Pennsylvania?), that was shipping weapons to Israel to use against Palestinian civilians. Sam can be reached at sbahour(at)palnet.com.
Sam Bahour
contributions:
Letter From Sam Bahour And Family Under 'Lockdown', Sept 26, 2002
The Blind Leading the Criminal, Apr 6, 2002
When History Repeats Itself, Again and Again, Mar 11, 2002
Occupation Begins to Crack, Feb 22, 2002
The Year of 2's, Dec 27, 2001
Believe it or not, Dec 24, 2001
Interview with Sam and his friend Barbara Lubin, Friday, Dec 21, 2001
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Interview with Sam, Jan 23, 2002 (no audio)
Note: some of Sam's articles are co-authored with Michael Dahan, an Israeli-American political scientist living in Jerusalem and he can be reached at mdahan(at)attglobal.net.
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