Azmi Bishara | |
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Azmi Bishara in 2013.
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Date of birth | 22 July 1956 |
Place of birth | Nazareth, Israel |
Knessets | 14, 15, 16, 17 |
Faction represented in Knesset | |
1996–2007 | Balad |
Azmi Bishara (Arabic: عزمي بشارة listen , Hebrew: עַזְמִי בִשַארָה listen , born 22 July 1956, Nazareth) is an Arab public intellectual, political philosopher and author. Bishara, a Palestinian from the Upper Galilee, is presently the General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Previously, he was a member of the Israeli legislature, the Knesset. Bishara won election as a member of the Balad Party, a group which represents the interests of the Arab citizens of Israel, and of which he was a founder.