Birth: NULL/NULL/1946 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Bethlehem on 17 Oct. 1946; received a high school diploma from the Frères College, Bethlehem, in 1964; attended Brumanna High School in Lebanon for one year; enrolled at the AUB and graduated with a BA in Philosophy in 1969; continued his studies and received a PhD in Philosophy from the State University of New York, Buffalo, in 1976; while studying, worked as a Data Processing Clerk at the Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, California, in 1972, and as Instructor at the State University of New York, Buffalo, from Sept. 1973-1976; in autumn 1975, was a Visiting Lecturer at the D’Youville College, Buffalo; Chair of the Dept. of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University from 1977-81; Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Birzeit University from 1981-85 and again in 1993-95; Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birzeit University since 1983; Coordinator of the Research Unit at Al-Haq human rights organization from 1991-92; in Jan. 1992, co-founder of Muwatin (The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy); Board Member of Muwatin since 1992; Muwatin Program Coordinator from 1992-95; Board Member of the Jerusalem Center for Human Rights from 1994 (serving as its Chair in 1996); General Editor of Muwatin’s Foundations of Democracy Series since 1994;founding member of the Palestinian NGO Network and elected member of its Steering Committee since 1995; Dean of Graduate Studies at Birzeit University since 1996; Board Member of the Palestinian Hydrology Group from 1996-2000; Board Member of the Teacher’s Creativity Center in Ramallah from 1997-2000; editor-in-chief of Parliamentary Horizons, an Arabic monthly documentary newsletter on the work of the PLC, since 1997; co-founder and member of the Program Council of the Graduates’ Program in Democracy and Human Rights at Birzeit University since 1998; has written many articles and essays and (co-)edited several books, incl. After Oslo: New Realities, Old Problems (London: Pluto Press, 1998) and State Formation in Palestine (London: Routledge, 2004).
