Nizar Farsakh is a principal at Farsakh Training Consulting LLC;  Chairman of the Board of the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C.; and a lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.  He focuses on leadership, advocacy and negotiations training, and is involved in several non-violence initiatives in Palestine/Israel and the United States.  From 2003 – 2008, he was an advisor to senior Palestinian leaders including the president, prime minister and various ministries.  He then spent two years as General Director of the PLO Delegation in Washington, D.C., before moving on to work for two years at the Project on Middle East Democracy in Washington.  He has a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Masters in International Boundary Studies from King’s College London.

Spring 2020