Sami Zaidalkilani, Visiting Professor

Professor Sami Zaidalkilani is a human rights activist and advocate of nonviolence, dialogue, and peace who teaches in the faculties of Sociology and Social Work at the An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. Professor Al-Kilani served 5 years in Israeli prisons and 3 years under town arrest for political activities during which he was adopted by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. He currently supervises ICAN Fellows in Jordan and Palestine and is the former Director of the Community Service Center at An-Najah National University. Besides his work in civic education training, community development, and municipal strategic planning, Sami is an acclaimed writer and poet with over six published poetry works and children’s books.