Mahmoud Hawari is a Palestinian archaeologist and academic. From 2016 to 2018 he was the director ofThe Palestinian Museum inBirzeit (25 km north ofJerusalem), which was officially inaugurated in May 2016.^[1]

Mahmoud Hawari was born inTarshiha, Israel, and received master's and PhD degrees from theUniversity of London. From 2004 to 2007 he was a lecturer at theUniversity of Oxford, and from 2009 to 2012 a visiting professor atBirzeit University, having previously taught atAl-Quds University andBethlehem University.^[2]

He was appointed in May 2016, two weeks before the museum's opening, and succeededJack Persekian, who resigned over disagreements with the board after three and a half years.^[1][3]

Hawari was previously a research associate at theKhalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, and a curator at theBritish Museum in London.^[3]

In May 2016 he was preparing a book,The Citadel of Jerusalem: A Comprehensive Archaeological and Architectural Study, Monograph of the British Academy by Oxford University Press.^[4]

• Ayyubid Jerusalem (1187-1250): an Architectural and Archaeological Study, (BAR International Series 1628, Archaeopress), Oxford, 2007 (ISBN 978-1407300429)
• Pilgrimage, Sciences and Sufism, Islamic Art in the West Bank and Gaza, (Palestinian Authority and Museum With No Frontiers, Electa, al-Faris), Vienna and Amman 2004 (co-author, co-editor).ISBN 1-874044-42-2

• Living people
• Academics of the University of Oxford
• Academic staff of Bethlehem University
• Academic staff of Birzeit University
• Academic staff of Al-Quds University
• Alumni of the University of London
• Curators
• Palestinian archaeologists

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• Year of birth missing (living people)