Mohammed Dajani

Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi (born March 19, 1946) is a Palestinian professor and peace activist. Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi has gained international recognition for his extensive record in helping to raise awareness concerning the Holocaust. He has done this educational campaign through TV interviews, books, documentaries, articles, conferences, workshops, magazines, Facebook groups, websites, etc. Dajani has also been active in forming good relationships with Jewish and Christian religious leaders and peace activists to spread the Wasatia message of understanding, tolerance, coexistence and brotherhood. In his Wasatia ideology, Dajani is tackling the ideological roots of extremism.In 2014, he became the center of a controversy when he led a group of students from Al-Quds University to Auschwitz.

Dajani was born to one of Jerusalem's historic Arab families. The honorific "Daoudi" was added to the family name in 1529 when Suleiman the Magnificent designated an ancestor keeper of the Tomb of King David on Mount Zion. His family fled to Egypt when Israel declared its independence in 1948, but returned to the Old City of Jerusalem the following year (then under Jordanian rule).

Dajani's parents, well-educated secular Muslims, sent him to English-speaking Quaker-run schools. As an engineering student at the American University of Beirut, Dajani joined Fatah. Although he received military training, he was put to work in the English-language public relations department of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

In 1975, Lebanon deported Dajani. Banned from both Israel and Jordan because of his Fatah activities, he decided to travel to the United States to continue his education. He eventually earned a Ph.D. in government from the University of South Carolina and another Ph.D. in political economy at the University of Texas at Austin.

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