Department of English Language and Literature

The Department of English Language and Literature at Birzeit University seeks to promote the University's mission through the disciplined study of the English language, linguistics and literature, as well as the development of the attributes associated with a liberal arts education that include: skill with language, intellectual curiosity, critical judgment, effective and persuasive writing, creative imagination and independent thought.

By offering an array of courses in writing, linguistics, literature and translation, the Department of English fosters an invigorating and diverse learning community, judiciously combining breadth with depth of knowledge, and tradition with contemporaneity. It seeks to attract the best possible students from diverse Palestinian backgrounds, and at the same time recruit, support and retain the best faculty members in order to achieve its goals at the highest professional and intellectual levels.