Sam Bahour | |
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| Born | (1964-10-18) October 18, 1964 Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Youngstown State University |
| Occupation | Managing Partner of Applied Information Management (AIM) |
| Spouse |
Abeer Barghouty (m. 1993) |
| Children | Areen Bahour, Nadine Bahour |
| Website | http://www.aim.ps |
Sam Bahour is an American businessman and entrepreneur of Palestinian descent.
Early life and education
Bahour was born in Ohio in 1964, to a Palestinian father and Lebanese-American mother. He moved with his family to the West Bank in the 1990s following the signing of Oslo Accords to become involved in developing the economy of the future Palestinian state.1
He graduated from Youngstown State University in 1989 with a degree in computer technology, and subsequently worked for several American software firms, before moving to the West Bank in 1995.2
In addition, he earned an MBA in a joint program between Northwestern University in Illinois and Tel Aviv University in Israel.
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. He also founded several private businesses, and led the establishment of a publicly-listed (PEX) Western-style shopping center in the West Bank, the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers.
He has voiced support on Twitter for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement against Israel for its crimes against the Palestinian people.34
On 6 April 2021, Bahour, along with American-Israeli professor Bernard Avishai, addressed J Street on the topic of the confederation model for resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.5 The confederation model was the subject of a New York Times opinion piece authored by Bahour and Avishai in February of that year.6
References
References
- Bahour, Sam (7 October 2006). "We can't go home again". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2012 – via IMEU.
- Bahour, Sam (25 July 2012). "Palestine's Investments Require Divestment". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- "Opinion | Helping Migrant Children". The New York Times. 25 February 2021. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- Bahour, Sam (26 August 2013). "Boycott institutionally, Engage individually – Divest from Israel, Invest in Palestinians in all of historic Palestine – Sanction Now!". Twitter. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
- "Confederation: An Emerging Plausible Two-State Solution? What Changes in the US, Israel and Palestine Portend for the Future". jstreet.org. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- Avishai, Bernard; Bahour, Sam (12 February 2021). "Opinion | Want Israeli-Palestinian Peace? Try Confederation" – via NYTimes.com.