– singer and actor Karl Sabbagh – Palestinian-British writer, journalist and television producer Suleiman Mansour – Prominent Palestinian painter Sabri Jiryis – writer and lawyer Leila Sansour – film director Makram Khoury – actor Clara Khoury – actress Kamal Boullata – artist & writer, Boulatta is the author of several studies on Palestinian art in particular, Palestinian Art (Saqi 2009) and Between Exits: Paintings by Hani Zurob (Black Dog 2012). Steve Sabella – artist Ibrahim Fawal – Palestinian American academic, former professor, and author of the historical novel On the Hills of God. Palestinian Christian militants Sirhan Sirhan – assassin of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy Chris Bandak – Palestinian Christian militant and a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and the Tanzim, both armed wings of the Fatah movement, convicted and imprisoned in Israel until 2011. Wadie Haddad – Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's armed wing. He was responsible for organizing several civilian airplane hijackings in support of the Palestinian cause in the 1960s and 1970s. George Habash – founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Palestinian businesspeople Yousef Beidas – founder of Intra Bank Hind Khoury – Palestinian Delegate-General to France Hasib Sabbagh – entrepreneur and businessman Zahi Khouri – Palestinian-American businessman and entrepreneur Palestinian activists Sumaya Farhat Naser – peace activist Mubarak Awad – Palestinian-American psychologist and an advocate of nonviolent resistance Alex Odeh – Palestinian-American anti-discrimination activist Khalil Jahshan – lecturer in International Studies and Languages at Pepperdine University and executive director of its Seaver College Washington DC Internship Program Salim Joubran – Justice on the Israeli Supreme Court Mira Awad – singer, actress and songwriter Dr. Wadie Haddad – member and the leader of the national resistance wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who was allegedly killed by Israel Hanna Siniora – publisher and human rights activist Other Sami Aldeeb – Palestinian-Swiss lawyer and author of many books and articles on Arab and Islamic law born to a Palestinian Christian family; left Christianity and became a nontheist. Roberto Bishara – Palestinian football defender Ibrahim Hazboun – Palestinian astrologer Michel Shehadeh – Palestinian-American, member of the Los Angeles 8 See also Arab Christians Arab citizens of Israel: Christians Christianity in Israel Demographic history of Palestine (region) References Further reading Morris, Benny, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, (2009) Yale University