Personal Life
He is married to Nahla Al-Najjar, and they have five children. Nahla was born in 1961. Nahla raised $30,000 per year from 1990 to 1995 for blind and orphaned children in Palestine. His son Abdullah Al-Arian was an intern for U.S. Representative David E. Bonior in 2001. Al-Arian's eldest daughter, Laila Al-Arian, is a producer for Al Jazeera English in Washington, DC, and a freelance journalist and contributor to the Huffington Post and The Nation.
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