Sami Al-Arian

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sami Al-Arian
Date Of Birth	Jan 14, 1958(1958-01-14)
Age	66
Country	Kuwait
Horoscope	Capricorn

Sami Al-Arian Biography

Sami Al-Arian is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on January 14, 1958 in Kuwait. Al-Arian was born the 14th of January 1958, in Kuwait. Parents, Amin and Laila Al-Arian were Palestinian refugees who fled after the founding by Israel during 1948. Following the 1948 Palestine war, Amin had to leave behind the soap factory that was his family’s in Jaffa and move to the refugee camps in Gaza. Amin’s family relocated to Kuwait in 1957 , where Sami Al-Arian was born. According to Kuwaiti law his parents were granted legal residency status, but Sami Al-Arian was not eligible to obtain citizenship. In 1966, the family was exiled from Kuwait because they refused to become an informant in Kuwaiti intelligence. He completed his secondary and primary education in Cairo, Egypt. In the early 70s Sami began to learn English from American TV showslike Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Baretta, and The Fugitive. Sami quit Egypt in 1975, but returned in 1979 for a trip after he got became married to Nahla Al-Najjar.

He relocated from Temple Terrace after he was appointed an assistant professor in the department of the field of computer engineering at the University of South Florida on January 22nd in 1986. His appointment was made permanent residence status in the United States in March 1989. He was elevated from assistant professor to associate professor, with tenure. He was awarded numerous awards related to teaching, including being awarded the Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award in 1993 as well as a pay increase based on merit grades as part of the Teaching Incentive program in 1994.

He was very involved in the local community. He served as an imam for a local mosque and as a charter officer for the local religious school. In 1992, he hosted a local cable-access show — Peace be upon you.

Al-Arian’s five-month, 13-day trial began with frenzied attention from national media outlets. The prosecution’s case was built largely on FBI wiretaps and fax transmissions gathered between 1994 and the time of Mr. Al- Arian’s arrest in 2003. The surveillance included roughly 20,000 hours of dialogue from 472,000 wiretapped telephone conversations on 18 tapped lines gathered from 1994 to 2003. While such wiretaps taken by the intelligence arm of the FBI are usually kept secret from federal criminal investigators, provisions in the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allow their use in certain trials dealing with terrorism. At the end of the prosecution’s case, Al-Arian’s lawyers chose not to present any witnesses in his defense and rested without offering a defense, hoping to leave the burden of proof squarely on the government’s shoulders. The trial concluded in November 2005. After 13 days of deliberations, the jury acquitted Al-Arian in December on 8 of 17 counts and deadlocked on the remaining nine. Two co- defendants were acquitted of all charges and another co-defendant was also acquitted on majority of his charges. The verdict was seen as a major embarrassment to the government’s prosecution and to the Patriot Act.

Amin Al-Arian used all of his money in order to bring Sami to America for a higher education. The year 1975 was the time Al-Arian moved to the United States to study engineering at Southern Illinois University. He graduated in 1978 from the university with the major of Electrical Sciences as well as Systems Engineering. In North Carolina State University, He earned his master’s in 1980 , and his doctorate in 1985.

Sami Al-Arian Net Worth

Sami Al-Arian is one of the richest Activist from Kuwait. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sami Al-Arian 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sami Amin Al-Arian (Arabic: smy “myn” lryn born on January 14, 1958) is a Palestinian civil rights activist, who was a professor of computer engineering at the University of South Florida. In the Clinton administration as well as the Bush administration He received invitations to visit in the White House. He actively supported his Bush presidential campaign during his bid for the United States presidential election in 2000.

The couple is Nahla Al-Najjar. They are parents to five kids. Nahla is born in the year 1961. Nahla was able to raise $30,000 per year between 1990 and 1995 for orphaned and blind children in Palestine. The son Abdullah Al-Arian was an intern for U.S. Representative David E. Bonior in 2001. The eldest daughter of Al-Arian, Laila Al-Arian, is a producer for Al Jazeera English in Washington, D.C. as well as freelance journalist, as well as a contributor to The Nation, the Huffington Post and The Nation.

He rose to national prominence for his pursuit of civil rights of Muslim- Americans and raising awareness of the Palestinian plight. Al-Arian criticized the peace process led by Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat and advocated support for the Palestinian uprisings against Israeli occupation during the 1980s and early 1990s. On October 20, 1988, Al-Arian established the Islamic Concern Project, which included a committee devoted to raising charity for Palestine. In 1990–91, his continued involvement in promoting dialogue between the West and Middle East led to the creation of World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), which served as a think tank that promoted public policy initiatives. WISE and University of South Florida formally agreed to cooperate on March 11, 1992. WISE published journals, supported graduate student education, and held seminars between American and Middle Eastern scholars.

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In May 1996, Villanova University canceled a seminar that involved many speakers including Al-Arian after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) complained about the possibility of riots. The Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), the United States’s largest association of Middle East scholars, approved a resolution that rebuked ADL for “creating an atmosphere of intimidation that resulted in the cancellation of an academic event”. USF placed Al-Arian on paid administrative leave in May 1996 pending the outcome of a federal investigation which had an indefinite time frame. Students complained in August 1997 after a graduation requirement course taught by Al- Arian was cancelled. After consultation with authorities who brought no charges after a three-year federal investigation, USF decided to reinstate him in August 1998.

Facts & Trivia

Sami Ranked on the list of most popular Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kuwait. Sami Al-Arian celebrates birthday on January 14 of every year.

Sami Al-Arian’s brother-in-law Mazen Al-Najjar was jailed for nearly five years, accused of having links to Palestinian terrorists. In May 1997, Al- Najjar was incarcerated in Miami, Florida without charge and was held in jail indefinitely on the basis of secret evidence. Although Judge McHugh found Al- Najjar to be a respected member of a community, McHugh denied bail on the basis of secret evidence in May 1997. In May 2000, U.S. district judge John A. Leonard ordered a rehearing because Al-Najjar’s right to due process had been violated when the government did not cede evidence in order for Al-Najjar to defend himself. During the first day of the rehearing in August 2000, the government called Al-Arian to testify. Several legal analysts and Al-Arian were convinced that Al-Arian, not Al-Najjar, was the focus of the Al-Najjar’s court case. On the advice of his attorney, Al-Arian cited the 5th Amendment to 99 of 102 questions. Because Al-Najjar was a Palestinian born in Gaza during Egyptian control of the region, Al-Najjar essentially had no citizenship anywhere and the allegations that he was connected to terrorists had ruined attempts to find a country to take him, his wife, and three young daughters. Al-Najjar was released in December 2000 after a judge ruled the government had no evidence to continue holding him. He overstayed his US student visa, and was deported in August 2002.