Mahmoud Hawari is a Palestinian archaeologist and academic. From 2016 to 2018 he was the director of The Palestinian MuseuminBirzeit (25 km north of Jerusalem), which was officially inaugurated in May 2016.[1]
Mahmoud Hawari was born in Tarshiha, Israel, and received master's and PhD degrees from the University of London. From 2004 to 2007 he was a lecturer at the University of Oxford, and from 2009 to 2012 a visiting professor at Birzeit University, having previously taught at Al-Quds University and Bethlehem University.[2]
He was appointed in May 2016, two weeks before the museum's opening, and succeeded Jack Persekian, who resigned over disagreements with the board after three and a half years.[1][3]
Hawari was previously a research associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, and a curator at the British 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]