Notable Palestinians — Academia & Thought

Notable Palestinians — Academia & Thought

• Edward Said (1935–2003) — Edward Wadie Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935 into a prosperous Palestinian Christian family and g…
• Walid Khalidi (1925–2026) — Walid Khalidi was born in Jerusalem in 1925 into one of the city's most distinguished families; his…
• Rashid Khalidi (1948–present) — Rashid Ismail Khalidi was born in New York City in 1948 to a father from a distinguished Palestinian…
• Yezid Sayigh (1955–present) — Yezid Sayigh (born 1955) is a Palestinian political scientist and one of the foremost scholarly auth…
• Hanna Batatu (1926–2000) — Hanna Batatu (1926–2000) was a Palestinian-American historian and political sociologist widely regar…
• Lila Abu-Lughod (1952–present) — Lila Abu-Lughod was born in 1952 to the Palestinian political scientist Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and the A…
• Sari Nusseibeh (1949–present) — Sari Nusseibeh was born in 1949 in Damascus, where his mother had taken refuge during the 1948 war,…
• Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929–2001) — Ibrahim Abu-Lughod was born in Jaffa in 1929 into a family that ran a metal foundry, and as a youth…
• Ismail al-Faruqi (1921–1986) — Ismail Raji al-Faruqi was a Palestinian-American philosopher and scholar of comparative religion, wi…
• Hisham Sharabi (1927–2005) — Hisham Bashir Sharabi was born in Jaffa in 1927 and educated at the American University of Beirut, w…
• Nur Masalha (1957–present) — Nur Masalha is a Palestinian historian and academic born in the Galilee, a Palestinian citizen of Is…
• Khalil al-Sakakini (1878–1953) — Khalil al-Sakakini was born in Jerusalem in 1878 into a Palestinian Christian Orthodox family in the…
• Salman Abu Sitta (1937–present) — Salman Abu Sitta was born in 1937 in the Beersheba district of southern Palestine, on land that bore…
• Fayez Sayegh (1922–1980) — Fayez Sayegh was a Palestinian scholar, political theorist, and diplomat who became one of the most…
• Beshara Doumani (1957–present) — Beshara Doumani is a Palestinian-American historian recognized for transforming the social and econo…
• Salim Tamari (1945–present) — Salim Tamari is a Palestinian sociologist and one of the foremost social historians of late Ottoman…
• Muhammad Izzat Darwaza (1888–1984) — Muhammad Izzat Darwaza was born in 1888 into a middle-class Sunni Muslim merchant family in Nablus,…
• Joseph Massad (1963–present) — Joseph Andoni Massad is a Palestinian scholar born in Amman, Jordan, in 1963. He completed his under…
• Saree Makdisi (1964–present) — Saree Makdisi is a literary scholar and public intellectual, Distinguished Professor of English and…
• Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi (1896–1951) — Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi was born in 1896 in Jerusalem into the prominent al-Khalidi family, one of th…
• Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi (1864–1913) — Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi was born in 1864 in the Bab al-Silsila (Chain Gate) quarter of the Old City…
• Khalil Totah (1886–1955) — Khalil Abdallah Totah was born on 20 May 1886 in Ramallah, then part of Ottoman Palestine, the sixth…
• Stephan Hanna Stephan (1894–1949) — Stephan Hanna Stephan was born in 1894 in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, during the late Ottoman period,…