Khalil Jahshan

Khalil Jahshan
Born	May 8, 1948 (1948-05-08) (age 63) Nazareth, British Mandate of Palestine
Residence	Fairfax, Virginia, the US
Nationality	American
Education	Harding University
Occupation	Executive Director of Pepperdine University Seaver College's Washington DC Internship Program Lecturer in International Studies and Languages
Religion	Christianity

Khalil Jahshan (Arabic: خليل جهشان) (born in Nazareth, British Mandate of Palestine in 1948) is a Palestinian-American Lecturer in International Studies and Languages at Pepperdine University and Executive Director of its Seaver College Washington DC Internship Program. He received a bachelor's degree in political science and French from Harding University in 1972^[1]

Early life

Jahshan was born to a Palestinian Christian family in Nazareth, British Mandate of Palestine in 1948. He completed his elementary and secondary education there. In 1969, he traveled to the United States to pursue his college education.^[2]

Member of the boards of directors and advisory boards of various Middle East-oriented groups, including ANERA, MIFTAH and Search for Common Ground in the Middle East
2000–2003 — Executive Vice President of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and director of its government affairs affiliate, NAAA-ADC
1996–2003 — Vice President of the American Committee on Jerusalem
1990–2000 — President of the National Association of Arab-Americans
June 1989–December 1990 — Associate Executive Director for Public Affairs of the National Association of Arab-Americans
1980–1982 — Teacher of Arabic at the University of Chicago Extension and at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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Name	Jahshan, Khalil
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Date of birth	1948-05-08
Place of birth	Nazareth, British Mandate of Palestine
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