is Professor of Sociology (Emeritus) at Birzeit University, Research Associate at the Institute for Palestine Studies, and Editor of The Jerusalem Quarterly. His recent publications include: 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 Remaking of Palestine and the Great War (2017: UC Press); and Landed Property and Public Endowments in Jerusalem (with Munir Fakhr Ed Din, forthcoming 2018). He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Manchester University and has been a visiting professor at Ca Foscari University (Venice), Georgetown University, Harvard University, and Columbia University.