Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Birzeit University; Research Associate, Institute for Palestine Studies; Editor, The Jerusalem Quarterly. 

Recent Publications:  Mountain Against the Sea: A Conflicted Modernity;  The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh (with Issam Nassar);    Year of the Locust: Erasure of the Ottoman Era in Palestine;    The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine (2018: UC Press);   Landed Property and Public Endowments in Jerusalem(with Munir Fakhr Ed Din, 2018). Camera Palestina: Photography and the Sensual Impulse (UC Press; forthcoming 2019)

Ph.D. Sociology, Manchester University; Visiting Professor: Ca Foscari University (Venice); Georgetown University (Washington); New York University; Cornell University (Ithaca); University of Chicago; Harvard University (Cambridge); Columbia University (New York).