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All in sports
Abdelfattah was promoted last September by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers (11-23), an affiliate of the Rockets. The former Vipers assistant found out shortly after returning from Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required at least once of every Muslim who can afford it and has good health.
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady is a professional mixed martial artist (MMA) based out of Dallas, Texas. His parents are from Silwad, Ramallah, a village in Palestine.
n spring 2019, the midfielder went to Qatar, where she played for the Palestinian women's national team in Olympic qualifying matches.
Last winter, Ibrahim, El-Amoor, and two other teens from the U.S. were invited by the Palestinian American Athletic Association to play in the West Asian Cup in Bahrain with the U18 Palestinian National Team.
Oday Aboushi is an offensive guard for the Detroit Lions. He is a Palestinian American from New York City.
Currently, sports fans have a number of young Palestinian athletes to look up to, including Oday Aboushi, a lineman for the Detroit Lions; Belal Muhammad, a professional mixed martial artist; and Mahmoud Abdelfattah, head coach of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, an affiliate of the Houston Rockets.
Mahmoud Abdelfattah, the first Palestinian head coach in NBA G League history was hired last September by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, an affiliate of the Houston Rockets.
Tune into Palestine in America’s podcast to hear how Askar plans on bringing awareness to the plight of the Palestinians, while he climbs the ranks of the mma world.
The 32-year-old New York native was raised in Ohio and fumbled upon weight lifting four years ago when she took her son to a local gym for sports training. It was at the gym that she signed up for a weight lifting class and now says she is in the best shape of her life.
Muhammad earned his call to UFC by dominating in the smaller fighting circuits. He was 9-0 before he was notified about his opportunity at a more professional level, but he was not surprised. He fought five fights at Hoosier Fight Club in Indiana, two for Bellator MMA — a California-based MMA promotion — and three for Titan FC, a Florida-based MMA promotion. The Palestinian fighter expected the call from the UFC after he defeated former UFC fighter Steven Carl by TKO to win the Titan FC welterweight championship in 2016.
Omar Kharroub wanted to continue playing football professionally after his collegiate career, so when the Boğaziçi Sultans’ head coach Bora Karsak contacted him, he was willing and ready to move across the globe to continue chasing his dreams.
“The Son of Palestine,” Rami Ibrahim, took home the United States Kickboxing Alliance (U.S.K.A) Muay Thai Championship on Jan. 30th.
Team Palestine for PCRF will travel to Bethlehem to participate in the Right to Movement Marathon in April.
Omar Kharroub has been proving people wrong for so long, it’s fitting that he’s one impressive game away from landing his dream job—professional quarterback.
On June 22nd New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman spent ten days of the Patriots’ offseason on a trip to Israel with fifteen others, sponsored by Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (CJP).
Sheldon Adelson, a Pro-Israel billionaire donor from Las Vegas, flew a group of NBA players to Israel in another attempt to hinder Boycott Divestment and Sanctions efforts.
The Cleveland Cavaliers opened up pre-season play against an Israeli team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, on Oct. 5 while several dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside Quicken Loans Arena to protest the team’s first year head coach, David Blatt, who supported and attempted to justify Israel’s 51-day assault on Gaza this past summer, which killed 500 Palestinian children.
