Tariq khalil jahshan biography

Pathbreakers of Arab America—Khalil Jahshan

posted on: Sep 25, 2024

By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer

This is the fifty-ninth of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent.

The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Our fifty-ninth pathbreaker is Khalil Jahshan, a Palestinian-American political analyst, media commentator, and organization executive.

He serves as Executive Director of Arab Center Washington DC, a nonprofit think tank focusing on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Khalil is impassioned by the long-festering Israeli Palestinian issue and a fervent supporter of Palestine.

A master of organizational management, Khalil Jahshan directs full focus to solving the Israel-Palestinian problem

Jahshan was born in Nazareth, British Mandate of Palestine, in 1948 to a Palestinian Christian family.

He completed his elementary (Ecole Jesu Adol