| Michel Shehadeh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Amman, Jordan |
| Nationality | Palestinian-American |
| Education | California State University, Long Beach |
| Occupation | Director, community leader |
Michel Shehadeh born in 1956, in Amman, Jordan), to a Palestinian Christians family, is the Palestinian-American executive director of the Arab Film Festival and the former Western Regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (1996-2003).
The Palestinian raised Shehadeh relocated to the United States for college in 1975. In 1987, he became the target of investigation by the US Government as a suspected abettor of "terrorists", one of the media-dubbed "Los Angeles Eight", but Shehadeh and the other seven individuals were cleared of charges in 2007.[1]