Omar Dajani is a

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professor and former member of the

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's Negotiations Support Unit. Dajani was born in

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in 1970. He received his

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from

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and his J.D. from

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. In 1999, he left the

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to join the

's Negotiations Support Unit, where he worked as a senior legal advisor to the

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negotiating team. In 2001, Dajani left his post at the

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to take a position as a political advisor to

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Special Envoy

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, which he held until 2003. Dajani is currently a professor of law at the University of the Pacific's

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References

Profile of Omar Dajani at the Institute for Middle East Understanding

Biography of Omar Dajani at Brit Tzedek v'Shalom

University of California - Hastings College of the Law Visiting Faculty

External links

Omar Dajani: "September Song", ''Foreign Policy'' (24 May 2011) at ForeignPolicy.com

Omar Dajani & Ezzedine Choukri Fishere: "The Myth of Defensible Borders: How a Regional Security Initiative Can Promote Middle East Peace", ''Foreign Affairs'' (5 Jan 2011) at ForeignAffairs.com

Omar Dajani: "In Middle East's problems lie the solutions", ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' (3 August 2006) at SFGate.com

Living people American people of Palestinian descent Northwestern University alumni Yale Law School alumni University of the Pacific (United States) faculty 1970 births American legal scholars {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub

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