Huda Abuarquob ( Arabic: هدى أبو عرقوب; born 1970) is a Palestinian peace activist and feminist, former educator, and a former regional director of Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). ^{[1] [2]}

Abuarquob was born in Jerusalem ^[1] to a Communist and feminist mother, who taught English, and a Sufi-influenced father, who was a school principal. ^{[2] [3]} Her family placed immense importance on education; ^[2] her paternal grandmother, who was illiterate, ensured her seven children were educated. ^[4] Her family were also promoters of peace and nonviolence. Her maternal great-grandfather helped protect Jewish residents of Hebron during the 1929 Hebron massacre. ^{[5] [3]} When Abuarquob expressed interest in joining the First Intifada in the late 1980s, her mother discouraged her, telling her to read Tolstoy instead. ^[3] She is the eldest of twelve children. ^{[2] [4]}

Abuarquob's family moved to Saudi Arabia for a few years during her childhood, before returning to the West Bank, where they settled in Bethlehem. ^[2] There, her father taught at a Catholic school. The family later relocated again, to a village near Hebron. ^[2]

Abuarquob first worked as a teacher in the West Bank, where she worked for 15 years for the Palestinian Ministry of Education. ^{[2] [4]} In 1997, she was part of a group of teachers who designed the first Palestinian educational curriculum. ^[2] As part of the experience, she met with Israeli teachers; this marked the first time Abuarquob had met with Israeli civilians. ^[2] These educational encounters with Israelis would continue; a few years later, Abuarquob visited Boston to participate in a forum hosted by Boston College's Irish Institute, and met Israeli teachers also in attendance. ^[2] She interned with the Irish Institute for the following three summers. ^[2] Through these experiences, Abuarquob decided that education, and through it, engagement with 'the other', was key to peace efforts. ^[2] After encountering Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paolo Freire, Abuarquob also began envisioning herself not as a victim, but simply as someone oppressed, and that “the responsibility of the oppressed [is] to liberate themselves, and thereby, liberate the oppressor as well.”. ^{[2] [6]}

Inspired to begin working as a peace activist, Abuarquob applied to the Fulbright Program. ^[2] She was accepted, came to the United States in early 2004, where she studied at Eastern Mennonite University for a graduate degree in conflict transformation and peace studies, graduating in 2006. ^{[2] [4]} While at the university, Abuarquob was also able to reconnect with her Islamic faith through a lens of social justice, rather than politics. ^[2]

While studying in the United States in the early 2000s, Abuarquob co-founded, with a Jewish man, Abraham's Vision, a non-profit based in San Francisco that built connections between Jewish and Palestinian college students. ^{[5] [4]}

Abuarquob joined ALLMEP in 2014 as its regional director. ^[2]

In December 2017, she received the Laudato Si’ Prize from the Vatican. ^{[2] [5] [7]}

Abuarquob has worked with Women Wage Peace, ^{[2] [3] [8]} and she is a board member of Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy. ^[9] She was one of six peacemakers profiled in Ron Kronish's 2023 book Profiles in Peace. ^[10]

Abuarquob lives in Hebron. ^[5]