Nasser Abufarha
Palestinian-American anthropologist and businessman
Nasser Abufarha is a Palestinian-American anthropologist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Canaan Fair Trade and the Palestine Fair Trade Association—a network of small-scale family farms organized under fair trade and organic production, active in 54 villages across the West Bank with 1500 members.2
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Born 1964.1
About
His book, The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, was published by Duke University Press in 2009.
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Companies
- Canaan Fair TradeFounder8
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison3
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 his village in Palestine.
After first studying in Canada, he traveled to the United States, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 1989. Abufarha went on to earn a PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson.5
- Date not recordedFounded Canaan Fair Trade4
In 2004, Abufarha established the Palestine Fair Trade Association—a network of small-scale family farms organized under fair trade and organic production, active in 54 villages across the West Bank with 1500 members.
He also established Canaan Fair Trade, a healthy lifestyle brand of Palestinian speciality foods selling to the United States and Europe. Canaan Palestine products are certified fair trade and organic offering Palestinian olive oil.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataNasser Abufarha on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaNasser Abufarha on Wikipedia
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- 8WikidataCanaan Fair Trade, Founder
- 9Wikimedia CommonsNasser Abufarha photo by Amanda Nunn, CC BY 3.0