Person · Sociologist and historian

Salim Tamari

سليم تماري

born 1945

Born in Jaffa in 1945, he taught sociology at Birzeit University from 1971 and earned his doctorate at Manchester in 1983. He took part in the refugee working group of the multilateral peace talks, and from 1994 directed the Institute of Jerusalem Studies of the Institute for Palestine Studies and edited the Jerusalem Quarterly. His books include Jerusalem 1948 (1999) and The Mountain Against the Sea (2005), and, with Issam Nassar, an edition of Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs.

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document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs

Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory

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