Ualid Rabah is president of the Palestinian Arab Federation of Brazil–FEPAL. The son of Palestinian immigrants from Kobar (father) and ‘Arura (mother) who arrived in Brazil in 1960 and 1965 respectively, Ualid was born in December 1966 as the first of four children, all born in Toledo (Paraná). Trained during his secondary technical education in agriculture and fish farming and holding university degrees in economics and law, he owns a law firm that administers portfolios of clients engaged in various enterprises. He is married to journalist and writer Cassiana Pizaia with whom he has two teenage children, Sofia and Gabriel.