Dyab Abou Jahjah

Dyab Abou Jahjah (Arabic: دياب أبو جهجه‎, born 24 June 1971 in Hanin, Lebanon) is an Arab political activist and writer who was active in Europe between 2001 and 2007. He is the founder and former leader of the Arab European League (AEL), a Pan-Arabist movement that supports the interests of Muslim immigrants in Europe. Since then, Abou Jahjah took distance from identity politics and is more operating out of a non-ethnic, secular and leftist framework.

Personal life

He was born and grew up in southern Lebanon in Hanin, near the Lebanese-Israeli border.During the rest of his life the hate against Israel is a red wire. According to himself, he performed during his application for asylum in Belgium a conflict with the leadership of the Ba'ath Party as the reason. He obtained refugee status in 1996 and became a Belgian citizen through marriage to a Belgian woman, from whom he much later divorced. He is now married to a muslim woman he married in Libanon. He holds a Masters degree in political science from the Université catholique de Louvain.