User:Aliziad

ZIAD ABUZAYYAD
Attorney at Law, graduate of Damascus University 1965. Co-editor and publisher of the quarterly '''Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture''' which he co- , founded in 1994 with a prominent Israeli journalist, Victor Cygielman, as a joint Palestinian-Israeli venture. A weekly columnist of Al-Quds Arabic daily newspaper.

- Former member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (1996-2006), and former Minister of State in the PA (1998-2002), and Deputy Chairman of the Political Committee of the Euro-Med Parliament (2004-2005).

- Head of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East multilateral peace talks (the Arms Control and Regional Security Working Group) ACRS (1994-1996). - AbuZayyad was an advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team in Washington DC., (1992) and later a member of the post-Oslo negotiating team that concluded the 1994 Israeli-Palestinian Agreement (“The Cairo Agreement” that led to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority).

- He was imprisoned several times by Israeli authorities; the last was administrative detention for six months (Nov. 90/ May 91). Immediately after his release he joined the Palestinian team led by Faisal al-Hussieni to negotiate with US Secretary of State James Baker the arrangements for Madrid Peace Conference (1991).

- In 1986, well before the Oslo Agreement, AbuZayyad founded the Palestinian bi-monthly Hebrew language journal Gesher (The Bridge) of which he was publisher and editor. He is interviewed frequently by Israeli and international media on current issues of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict, and participated in numerous Regional and International conferences on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and interfaith dialog.

- AbuZayyad is co-author of The West Bank Political Lexicon (together with two prominent Israelis, Meron Benvenisti and Danny Rubinstein), and co-Editor of the book Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism (together with Hillel Schenker).

- AbuZayyad was born in April 1940; he is a resident of Eizariah (Bethany), a Palestinian suburb of East Jerusalem ,married and father of eight (Four boys and four girls).