Beshara Doumani بشارة دوماني | |
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Born | 1957 Saudi Arabia |
Position held | President of Birzeit University (2021–2023) |
Beshara Doumani (Arabic: بشارة دوماني) is a Palestinian-American academic currently serving as the president of Birzeit University. Prior to that, he was the Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies at Brown University. His research focuses on groups, places, and time periods marginalized by mainstream scholarship on the early modern and modern Middle East. He is also a public intellectual who writes on the topics of displacement, academic freedom, politics of knowledge production, and the Palestinian condition.