Abbas Shiblak (born 6 January 1944) is a Palestinian academic, historian, Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford (a post he has held since 1992), free-lance writer, former diplomat and an advocate of human rights.Shiblak specializes in refugee-host country relationships and international humanitarian law.
For the last few years, he has been working on a paper on the topic of statelessness in the Arab region.Shiblak founded Shaml, the Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Centre in Ramallah, and also served as its first director.
Shiblak was also a member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks on the "Working Group on Refugees".