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Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cultural and Arab Studies at Birzeit University. He serves as a Fulbright Scholar and spent 2015-2016 as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Center for Palestine Studies researching The Palestinian Living Cemetery. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle East and Arab Studies from the University of Utah and conducted postdoctoral research at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
His research focuses on cultural representations of Palestinian identity, Arab poetry, art criticism, and translation studies. Major works include studies on Palestinian textbooks, biographies of academic leaders like Gabi Baramki, and analyses of Palestinian landscape toponymy. He has translated key works such as Hussein Barghouthi's al-Daw' al-Azraq and Oz Shelach's Picnic Grounds.
Al-Shaikh is affiliated with Muwatin and the Institute of Palestine Studies as a fellow, contributing to democracy studies and Palestinian cultural heritage preservation. His poetry collections—Ash Wheels, City Remnants, and Departing Narratives—weave personal and political narratives into lyrical critiques of displacement and identity.
- Awards: Fulbright Scholar, Muwatin Fellowship, Institute of Palestine Studies Fellowship
- Research Projects: Toponymy politics, Palestinian educational narratives, cultural mobility in Near Eastern contexts
- Translations: Barghouthi's The Blue Light, Shelach's Picnic Grounds
