Center for Middle East Studies
Palestinian Studies
The New Directions in Palestinian Studies research initiative of Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies aims to shape scholarly works in this field through an annual workshop, an endowed post-doctoral fellowship, and a book series.
Palestinian Studies
The New Directions in Palestinian Studies research initiative of Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies aims to shape scholarly works in this field through an annual workshop, an endowed post-doctoral fellowship, and a book series.
Over the past generation, the field of Palestine and Palestinian studies has grown rapidly, attracting some of the best and brightest scholars. Launched as a research initiative of Brown University’s Middle East Studies program in 2012, New Directions in Palestinian Studies (NDPS) has built an international community of scholars dedicated to shaping the agenda of knowledge production on Palestine and the Palestinians and to decolonizing and globalizing this field of study.
NDPS organizes annual thematically-organized workshops, bringing together emerging and established scholars to take stock of research trends, identify promising new questions and sources and encourage networking across academic and research institutions.
Generous support by multiple donors provided the resources to establish the Mahmoud Darwish Professorship in Palestinian Studies, the first of its kind in the United States, with Professor Beshara Doumani as its inaugural holder.
NDPS hosts the first endowed post-doctoral fellowship dedicated to Palestinian Studies.
NDPS launched with University of California Press the first and only book series dedicated to Palestinian studies.
Beshara Doumani is the founder of NDPS and the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies. Doumani is the founding director (2012-2018) of Brown's Center for Middle East Studies and served as President of Birzeit University in Palestine from 2021-2023.