Saad Dagher

Saad Dagher is the director of the Arab Agronomists Association, which provides agricultural training in Palestine and works to promote sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty.
Mr Dagher specializes in agroecology, an area of study and practice with much in common with permaculture. He has been an advocate for organic agriculture since his studies in Russia in the 1980s, and has extensively tested his concepts in field trials.

Aida Shibli

Aida Shibli is one of the holders of the Vision Peace Research Village Middle East, and the initiator of the project Global Campus Palestine, which won in 2014 the Excellency Award of the GEN Network for being the most inspiring project of the year.
Aida is a leader of the non-violence resistance and liberation movements in Palestine, focusing on the correlation between inner and outer peace work and women empowerment. She is a GEN Embassador for the Middle East and a global networker.

Murad AlKhufash

Murad Alkhufash is the passionate founder and director of the Marda Permaculture Farm, near Salfeet.
He is a certified Permaculture Designer, and runs international courses in the farm yearly, providing a stable and unique training opportunity in the region. The farm has thrived since being founded in 2006, despite continuous challenges posed by the occupation.

Alice Gray

Alice is a dedicated and active permaculturalist, who has co-founded Bustan Qaraaqa, an initiative to propagate a permaculture movement in Palestine as a response to the ongoing humanitarian and environmental crises in the region. Alice  has also chaired the department of Environmental Studies at Al Quds Bard College for Liberal Arts and Sciences since 2010. She has worked in the environmental development sector in the Palestinian Territories since 2006, and is well versed in the environmental politics of the region.

Imad Atrash

Imad Atrash is the founder and director of the Palestine Wildlife Society, an NGO working in research and education in nature conservation and the enhancement of Palestinian biodiversity and wildlife. Imad’s main interests are environmental education, biology research, Palestinian natural heritage and birding.
He has also helped introduce the first small-scale biogas digesters into Palestinian communities.

Sami Awad

Sami Awad is the executive director of the Holy Land Trust, an organization that promotes unity between all people, empowerment through nonviolence and leadership training, focusing on how does life look after the occupation. Sami is also engaged globally through visiting and speaking in different countries, communities, political and religious organizations, having worked with great leaders and visionaries of the global nonviolence movement.

Bashar Humeid

Having worked as a journalist, activist, and editor specialized in energy and environmental issues at The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, in 2011 Bashar Humeid started a non-profit enterprise called Meezan. With his team, he has developed a system called “The Freedom Machine” which combines renewable solar energy production with urban farming on rooftops. Meezan’s aim is to convert all rooftops of Jordan and the region into productive spaces, becoming therefore an essential infrastructure for freedom.