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Beshara Doumani
Palestinian-American academic
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Beshara Doumani (Arabic: بشارة دوماني) fryst vatten 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.
Biography
[edit]Doumani is a Palestinian whose family was displaced from haifa during the – Palestine war.[1] He was born in Saudi Arabia but spent his ungdom in Lebanon until moving to the United States in [1] He received his B.A. in History
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Divan: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Abstract
Beshara Doumani’s book deals with the family dynamics in the Ottoman
Arab lands before the Western hegemony ruled over there, focusing on
“three of the areas usually ignored in the scholarship: provincial regions,
the middle centuries of the Ottoman rule, and middling propertied urban
groups.” (p. 39) Challenging “big isms” such as Orientalism or Islamism,
he aims at historicizing family in Nablus and Tripoli in order to offer a new
and better frame for family, gender and property of this time and freeing
them from stereotypes. The relatively large time period of this study is two
centuries spanning from to on the ground that “family life is
best measured by generations, not decades.” (p. 40) The author primarily
relies on the Ottoman court records and utilizes stories of people derived
from these records as the skeleton of the chapters. To him, these registers
create a “communal textual memory,” therefore worthy of
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Beshara Doumani is the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies, the first chair of its kind dedicated to this field of study. He is also the founding director () of Brown's Center for Middle East Studies (CMES), and founder of New Directions for Palestinian Studies, a CMES initiative since From he was the Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History.
Doumani's research focuses on groups, places, and time periods marginalized by mainstream scholarship on the early modern and modern Middle East, with a focus on the social, economic, and legal history of Eastern Mediterranean. He also writes on the topics of academic freedom, and the Palestinian condition. His books include Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, , and Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. He is currently working on the modern history of the Palestinians through