His book, The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, was published by Duke University Press in 2009.
He was born in 1964 in Al-Jalama, a small farming village near Jenin, at the northern tip of the West Bank.
Abufarha went on to earn a PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006.
He also established Canaan Fair Trade, a healthy lifestyle brand of Palestinian speciality foods selling to the United States and Europe.
Canaan Palestine products are certified fair trade and organic offering Palestinian olive oil.