Birth: 1/1/1935 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in ‘Arrabat al-Batuf, Galilee, in 1935; received a BA in Psychology and Economics from Yankton College, South Dakota, in 1965, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1968; worked as an instructor in Psychology at Hawaii community college from 1967-69, then at the University of Hawaii from 1971-72; and Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii; from 1972-75, worked as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin; in the meantime, continued his studies and earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1975; returned to Palestine and became Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, first at the Dept. of Psychology and Education (1975-76), then at the Sociology and Anthropology Dept., where he also served as Chairman (1976-81); then moved to An-Najah National University, Nablus, working as Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty of Arts (1981-83) and as Acting Pres. from 1983-85; returned to Birzeit University as Director for the Research and Documentation Center (1985-89), then as Associate Professor (1989-96) and full Professor (since 1996) at the of Sociology and Anthropology Dept.; has written numerous papers and articles as well (co-)authored and edited several books, incl., Speak Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (Berkeley, Ca.,1989), Ed-Dar Dar Abuna (‘This is our Father’s Home’): Collective Papers in Palestinian Folklore (Jerusalem, 1992), Es-Shatat Alfilistini (‘Palestine Diaspora: Collected Papers on the 1948 Eviction of the Palestinian People’) (Jerusalem 1992), Folk Heritage of Palestine (Taybeh, 1994), and Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context (Amsterdam, 1994).
