Abbas Shiblak

Who is Abbas Shiblak?

Abbas Shiblak is a Middle-Eastern academic, historian, Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, free-lance writer, former diplomat and an advocate of human rights.

Shiblak specializes in refugee-host country relationships and international humanitarian law. For the last few years, he has been working on a paper on the topic of statelessness in the Arab region.

Shiblak founded Shaml, the Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Centre in Ramallah, and also served as its first director. Shiblak was also a member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks on the "Working Group on Refugees".