Maher Charif
Maher Charif is a Palestinian Marxist historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and the history of Arab political movements. He is working as a lecturer and researcher on medieval, modern, and Arab history at the French Near East Institute in Syria.
Charif is a Palestinian refugee born in Damascus, Syria to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother. He has been a member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian People's Party, and is a commentator on politics and society in Arab newspapers.
His works include:
- Al-bahth 'an kiyan ', on the ideological evolution of Palestinian political movements
- Filastin fi-l-arshif as-sirri li-l-komintern '
- Rihanat an-nahda fi-l-fikr al-'arabi '
- Tayar al-islah ad-dini wa-masa'irihi fi-l-mujtama'at il-'arabiyya ' conference papers, co-edited with Salam al-Kawakibi.
- Tatawwur mafhoum al-jihad fi-l-fikr al-islami ''''