Ali Abunimah

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Ali Hasan Abunimah (Arabic: علي حسن ابو نعمه‎) is a Palestinian-American, born of a mother made a refugee in 1948 from the village of Lifta now in Israel, and a father from the village of Battir in the West Bank, who co-founded Electronic Intifada, a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective. Abunimah also serves as the Vice-President on the Board of Directors of the Arab American Action Network.

He is author of the book "One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", which proposes a different alternative: to revive an old and neglected idea of one state shared by two peoples.

Abunimah was born in Washington, D.C. on December 29, 1971, and spent his early years in the UK and Belgium. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago and he is a frequent speaker and commentator on the Middle East, contributing regularly to the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times among other publications. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.