Dr Samir Abed-Rabbo is a Palestinian refugee born in Qalandia Refugee Camp in Jerusalem, Palestine. His family was expelled from Yasour, their ancestral village in 1948. He holds a PhD in International Law (1981) from the University of Miami, Florida.
He is the author and editor of several articles and books on Palestine and other subjects including ODS: The Case for One Democratic State in Historic Palestine (CAIS: 2014) and is the lead author of both The Munich Declaration for One Democratic State in Historic Palestine (2012) and The Dallas Declaration of the Movement for One Democratic State in Historic Palestine (2010).