Professor Salim Tamari is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Palestine Studies and editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly. He is Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Birzeit University.
He obtained his PhD in Sociology from Manchester University and has been Visiting Professor at: Ca Foscari University (Venice); Georgetown University (Washington); Bogazice University (Istanbul); New York University; Cornell University; Columbia University (New York) and most recently at Harvard University.
His most recent books include: Jerusalem 1948 (IPS Beirut); Mountain Against the Sea: A Conflicted Modernity; The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh; Year of the Locust: Erasure of the Ottoman Era in Palestine; The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine (2017: UC Press); Landed Property and Public Endowments in Jerusalem (with Munir Fakhr Ed Din, forthcoming September 2018).
