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'''Hisham Sharabi''' ({{langx|ar|هشام الشرابي}}) (1927 [[Jaffa]], [[Mandatory Palestine]] – 2005 [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jaffa/Jaffa/Story162.html |title=Biography of Hisham Sharabi |website=Palestineremembered.com |date=November 12, 2000 |access-date=31 May 2024}}</ref> was a Palestinian historian and writer. He was Professor Emeritus of History and [[Umar al-Mukhtar]] Chair of [[Arab Culture]] at [[Georgetown University]], where he was a specialist in European intellectual history and social thought.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.georgetown.edu/departments/history/6735.html |title=In Memoriam: Dr. Hisham B. Sharabi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620161439/http://www1.georgetown.edu/departments/history/6735.html |archive-date=2008-06-20 |website=Georgetown Department of History}}</ref> He died of cancer at the [[American University of Beirut]] [[hospital]] on January 13, 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/01/16/arab-intellectual-hisham-sharabi-77-dies/05d92fee-2e4a-4206-8dfa-fc3327c8b4d4/ |title=Arab Intellectual Hisham Sharabi, 77, Dies |website=[[The Washington Post]] |date=15 January 2005 |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
He spent his early years growing up in Jaffa, Palestine and [[Acre, Israel|Acre, Palestine]] before attending American University in Beirut, where he graduated with a B.A. in [[Philosophy]]. He then traveled to study at the [[University of Chicago]], where he completed an M.A. in Philosophy in 1949. Politically active from a young age, Sharabi then returned to serve as editor of the [[Syrian Social Nationalist Party]]’s monthly magazine ''[[al-Jil al-Jadid]]'' (''[[The New Generation]]''). Forced to flee to [[Jordan]] after the parties disbanding in 1949, Sharabi returned to the [[United States]] where he completed a Ph.D. in the history of culture, again at the University at Chicago. That same year, he began to teach at Georgetown University, where he gained full professorship in eleven years; his chair was endowed by the Libyan government.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Feinberg|first=Lawrence|date=1980-05-12|title=United Arab Emirates Gives GU $750,000 for A Chair in Arab Studies|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/05/12/united-arab-emirates-gives-gu-750000-for-a-chair-in-arab-studies/be4813de-0d01-4438-8c03-2cd29bbbefad/|access-date=2021-11-26|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Maeroff|first=Gene I.|date=1981-02-24|title=UNIVERSITY RETURNS $600,000 LIBYAN GIFT|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/24/us/university-returns-600000-libyan-gift.html|access-date=2021-11-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==Controversy==
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Sharabi, while an ardent supporter of Palestinian rights, was not beyond criticizing the Palestinian governing bodies. According to a story in the ''[[Washington Post]]'', "In 1999, after [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]] Chairman [[Yasser Arafat]] ordered the arrests of 11 Palestinian academics who had accused his administration of 'tyranny and corruption,' Dr. Sharabi, along with [[Edward Said]] of [[Columbia University]], signed a letter calling the arrests 'a totally unjustifiable attack on the [[Freedom of speech|freedom of expression]].'" Nine of the lawmakers were immune from arrest, but two later accused the Palestinian police of attacking them.

==Legacy==
He promoted the understanding of the [[Arab]] culture, establishing in 1973, along with several other colleagues, the Georgetown [[Center for Contemporary Arab Studies]] with funding from the governments of the United States, [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Oman]], the [[United Arab Emirates]], and [[Libya]], as well as American corporations with business interests in the Middle East.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Khalil|first=Osamah F.|title=America's Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2016|isbn=9780674971578|location=Cambridge, MA}}</ref> In 1977, Georgetown University "awarded Dr. Sharabi the Umar Al-Mukhtar Chair in Arab Culture in recognition of his distinguished intellectual contributions and his efforts to promote Arab studies." Sharabi formed, later that same year, [[The Jerusalem Fund|the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development]], an organization that worked on educational, cultural and health issues of [[Palestinians]]. He served as Chairman of Board until his death in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/sp/i/189/pid/189 |title=About Us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123162735/http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/sp/i/189/pid/189 |archive-date=2009-01-23 |website=The Jerusalem Fund |date=2008}}</ref> In 1991, he formed what is now known as the [[Palestine Center]], which serves as a [[think tank]] educating the general public on Palestinian Political Issues.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thejerusalemfund.org/who-we-are/our-history/ |title=Our History |website=The Jerusalem Fund |access-date=31 May 2024}}</ref>

==Publications==
Author of 18 books and numerous articles and editorials, he was well respected as a foremost 20th-century Arab intellectual, contributing greatly to the study of Arabic culture. Sharabi also published several books himself on Arabic culture and philosophy. In honor of his work in both the European and Arab fields, the Department of history at Georgetown convened an international two-day symposium in 2002 titled ‘The Role of the Intellectual in Contemporary Political Life.’ Also named in his honor is the annual Hisham Sharabi graduate essay contest, begun by the Department's graduate students upon Sharabi's retirement in 1998.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sharabi, Hisham |chapter=The Scholarly Point of View: Politics, Perspective, and Paradigm |editor-first=Hisham |editor-last=Sharabi |title=Theory, Politics and the Arab World |publisher=Routledge |date=1991 |page=5}}</ref>

* {{cite book |title=Governments and Politics of the Middle East in the Twentieth Century |date=1962 |publisher=Van Nostrand}}
* {{cite book |title=Nationalism and Revolution in the Arab World (the Middle East and North Africa) |date=1966 |publisher=Van Nostrand}}
* {{cite book |title=Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society |date=1988 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}
* {{cite book |title=Palestine and Israel: The Lethal Dilemma |publisher=Pegasus |date=1969}}
* {{cite book |title=Arab Intellectuals and the West |date=1970 |publisher=Johns Hopkins Press}}
* {{cite book |url=http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC12_scans/12.palestine.guerrillas.1970.pdf |title=Palestine Guerillas: Their Credibility and Effectiveness |date=1970 |publisher=Georgetown University}}
* {{cite book |title=The Next Arab Decade: Alternative Futures |publisher=Westview Press |date=1988}}
* {{cite book |title=Theory, Politics, and the Arab World: Critical Responses |publisher=Routledge |date=1991}}
* {{cite book |trans-title=Images of the Past: An Autobiography |script-title=ar: صور الماضي: سيرة ذاتية |date=1993}}
* {{cite book |title=Embers and Ashes: memoirs of an Arab intellectual |translator-link=Issa J. Boullata |date=2008 |translator-first=Issa J. |translator-last=Boullata |publisher= Olive Branch Press}}

==See also==
*[[Neopatriarchy]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090122235048/http://thejerusalemfund.org/index.php The Jerusalem Fund]
* [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jaffa/Jaffa/Story162.html Encyclopedia Of The Palestinians: Biography Of Hisham Sharabi]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080719183504/http://www1.georgetown.edu/departments/history/5958.html Hisham Sharabi Graduate Student Essay Contest]
* [[Wolfgang G. Schwanitz]]: [http://www.trafoberlin.de/pdf-dateien/Nachruf%20Hisham%20B%20Sharabi%20WGS.pdf ''In memoriam Hisham B. Sharabi'']. In: ''Orient'', 46 (2005) 3, 339-344.
* [[Stephen Sheehi]], “Failure, Modernity and the Work of Hisham Sharabi: Towards a Post-Colonial Critique of Arab Subjectivity,” ' [[Middle East Critique]]; 10 (Spring)1997; 39-54.
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