Birth: NULL/NULL/1945 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jaffa in 1945; received his undergraduate training at Birzeit College; then joined Drew University in the US, and later received an MA in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire in 1971; worked as a Professor at the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Birzeit University, since 1971; earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester in 1983; was a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Durham (England), Chicago, Michigan, Paris VII, New York, Cornell and California at Berkeley; served as member of the Refugee Working Group in the multilateral peace talks from 1993; participated in the Quadripartite Committee on Refugees established under the Oslo Agreement; serves as Director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies (a branch of the Beirut-based Institute for Palestine Studies) since Sept. 1994; Editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly File and of the journal Afaq (Horizons); has published numerous articles, studies and books, incl. Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighborhoods and their Fate in the War (1999), Reinterpreting the Historical Record (2000), Ottoman Jerusalem (with Issam Nassar, 2002), Studies in the Social History of Mandate and Ottoman Jerusalem in the Jawharieh Memoirs (ed. with Issam Nassar, 2004), and The Mountain Against the Sea: Studies in Palestinian Urban Culture and Society (2005).
