Mahmoud Hawari

Mahmoud Hawari is the director of The Palestinian Museum in Birzeit (25 km north of Jerusalem), which opened in May 2016, despite not having any exhibits.

Mahmoud Hawari was born in Tarshiha, Israel, and received master's and PhD degrees from the University of London. From 2004 to 2007 he was a lecturer at the University of Oxford, and from 2009 to 2012 a visiting professor at Birzeit University, having previously taught at Al-Quds University and Bethlehem University.

He was appointed in May 2016, just two weeks before the museum's opening, and succeeded Jack Persekian, who was ousted by the board after three and a half years.

Hawari was previously a research associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, and a visiting academic at the British Museum in London.

As of May 2016, he has a book in preparation, The Citadel of Jerusalem: A Comprehensive Archaeological and Architectural Study, Monograph of the British Academy by Oxford University Press.

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