Hisham Sharabi

Hisham Sharabi (1927–2005) was born in Jaffa, Palestine, and studied at the American University of Beirut and the University of Chicago. He was a professor of history at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, until his retirement in 1998. Issa J. Boullata is a former professor of Arabic literature at McGill University. He is a writer, literary scholar, critic, editor, and translator.