Pathbreakers of Arab America—Alexander Michel Odeh
This is the one-hundred and third in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features personalities from various fields, including entertainment, business, sports, science, the arts, academia, journalism, and politics. Our one-hundred and third pathbreaker is Alexander Michel Odeh, who contributing writer John Mason highlights as a trailblazing Palestinian American human rights activist, who was brutally murdered on October 11, 1985. He was a passionate defender of Palestinian rights and advocate of inter-faith unity between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Odeh has been honored in a documentary film, “Who Killed Alex Odeh?,” to be featured at the Sundance Film Festival in 2026.
