[1] Abdel Rahman is currently the executive director and general coordinator of the Arab-Latin American Forum and a senior advisor to the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE).
However, his active participation in the university's Palestinian student political movement brought him to the attention of the Syrian Mukhabarat, eventually forcing him to flee Syria in 1964 for Latin America.
[3] In 1971, Abdel Rahman graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico with a bachelor's degree in political science and sociology.
Just weeks prior to the announcement, Abdel Rahman was the victim of a terrorist attack in his New York City offices by three armed members of the Jewish Defense League who entered the building and beat him with pipes and bats,[4] leaving him with permanent scars on his forehead.
[citation needed] During his tenure in Washington, D.C., Abdel Rahman was a frequent guest on television news programs and the college lecture circuit.