 He is a member of a number of professional associations (such as the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists, the Information Committee in the International Council for the Palestinians in the Diaspora -Geneva) and other advocacy societies (such the Arab National Congress, the Right of return, Aidoun [We will return]).Additionally, after discovering a collection of unknown short stories by the Palestinian writer Samira Azzam, he edited and published them.Abu Fakher obtained his BA in Economics in 1976.