Tareq Radi: The birth of Palestine solidarity activism at George Mason University. The Key aims of solidarity movements on U.S. college campuses and attempts to thwart growing grassroots activism.

Tareq Radi is a Palestinian-American organizer based in Washington, DC.

He is currently the Public Affairs Coordinator at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Under the umbrella of the Arab Studies Institute,

Radi is leading an initiative to mine historical and contemporary documents related to the Palestinian solidarity movement in the United States. The work will culminate in a series of databases aimed at studying the U.S.-based movement and offering researchers and advocates alike a critical resource.

Before that, he graduated with a B.S in Finance from George Mason University (GMU), where he was a founding member of GMU’s Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA).

He intends to pursue graduate school with hopes of developing and conducting research on resistance economies.