Birth: NULL/NULL/1944 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Bethlehem on 24 April in 1944; received his elementary and secondary education at Frères College and Terra Sancta School in Bethlehem; attended his last year of high school at Wabash High School in Indiana, US; then joined Indiana University, Bloomington, graduating with an MA in 1970; returned to the West Bank and became a full-time faculty member at Bethlehem University, where he lectures in history, politics and cultural studies since 1981; earned a PhD in Contemporary Arab Thought from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 1983; Board Member of PASSIA since 1990, of the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ), and of Al-Liqa’ Center for Religious and Heritage Studies, Bethlehem; among his publications are Folded Pages from Local Palestinian History: Bethlehem 1917-1948 (English and Arabic, Bethlehem, 2002), In Search of Self in a Disturbed World: The Life and Thought of Sayyid Qutob 1906-1966 (Arabic, Jerusalem, 2000), and Sayyid Qutob: the Emergence of the Islamist 1939-1950 (PASSIA, Jerusalem, 1st ed. 1990, 2nd ed. 1997).
