Fayyad in Austin at his Alma Mater

Who knew the Palestinian Prime Minister was a Longhorn?

He was in town causing major traffic jams today. I wonder if he's a Vince Young fan. I can get him going to UT, but St. Ed's, the junior Notre Dame?

From the Wiki article:

Dr Salam Fayyad (b. 1952) is a Palestinian politician, who on June 15, 2007, was appointed the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. His appointment, justified by President Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "national emergency", has not been confirmed by the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the parliament of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Until that date, Fayyad had been the Finance Minister of the Palestinian National Authority in the Fatah interim government from 2002.

Fayyad is an internationally respected economist and politician. Salam Fayyad received his MBA from St. Edwards University in 1980. Dr. Fayyad has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a student of William A. Barnett and where he did early research on the American Divisia Monetary Aggregates, which he continued on the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.