Ambassador Feda Abdelhady

 Chief Representative of the Palestinian General Delegation to Canada

Ambassador Feda Musa Zaid Abdelhady officially assumed her duties as the Chief Representative of the Palestinian General Delegation to Canada on 11 June 2026.

She is the first Palestinian Ambassador to hold this post since Canada’s principled decision to recognize the State of Palestine on 21 September 2025.

Ambassador Abdelhady is the daughter of Palestinians who became refugees sur place, among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced from their homeland by the Israeli occupation in 1967, and was raised and educated in the diaspora in the United States.

She assumes the post in Canada after 34 years of service in Palestinian diplomacy, primarily in the multilateral arena at the United Nations and its main organs. She began her diplomatic service at Palestine’s Mission to the UN in New York in 1992. From May 2013 to May 2026 she served as Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, with the rank of Ambassador. Prior to that appointment, she served, chronologically in descending order, as First Counsellor, Special Adviser to the Foreign Minister, First Secretary, and Special Assistant to the Ambassador.

For over three decades, Ambassador Feda’s advocacy efforts have been rooted in international law and UN resolutions and focused on mobilizing international support and action to alleviate the plight of the Palestinian people under occupation and of Palestine refugees across the region; advance the realization of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including to self-determination and return; promote accountability and justice; and achieve a just and peaceful solution for the historic injustice committed against Palestine.

Throughout her tenure at Palestine’s Mission to the UN, she represented the delegation at the Security Council and General Assembly and its Main Committees, with special focus on the Palestine refugees and UNRWA. For nearly 30 years, she led the drafting and negotiation of Palestine’s annual General Assembly resolutions and also at the Security Council. 

Ambassador Feda was also a member of Palestine’s team to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the advisory proceedings in the cases related to Palestine in both 2004 and 2023-2024, which led to the Court’s historic advisory opinion of July 2024 on the illegality of the Israeli occupation.

She has broad experience engaging and advocating in multilateral and bilateral frameworks with countries from all regions, within the Arab Group, Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and Asia-Pacific Group. For many years, she also represented the State of Palestine in the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and was the Mission’s main liaison with civil society organizations.

Ambassador Feda has a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration (2000, Rutgers University) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science/International Relations (1992, New York University).

She has completed several international certifications, including a “Leadership in Crisis” certification (UNITAR), “Preventive Diplomacy and Peacemaking” Fellowship (UNITAR), and Women and Leadership Training (Singapore Civil Service College), participated in numerous international conferences, legal seminars and workshops, and is a member of the Global Network on the Question of Palestine, various Ambassadorial groups and a Palestinian-Jewish American Women’s Dialogue Group.
 

Ambassador Feda is fluent in English (oral, written) and Arabic (oral, reading), and conversational in Spanish. She resides in the United States in New Jersey, where she was born in March 1970. She is married and the mother of two sons.