Khaldun Bshara
Dr. Khaldun Bshara (Ph.D. in socio-cultural Anthropology) is an architect, restorer, and anthropologist. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Birzeit University and serves as a senior advisor for Riwaq Centre, Ramallah, where he has worked since 1994 (and as a director between 2010-2020) in documenting, protecting and restoring built Palestinian heritage. Bshara received his B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from Birzeit University (1996) and his MA in the Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (2000). Interested in space and memory, he joined the University of California, Irvine on a Fulbright Scholarship where he obtained an MA in Anthropology in 2009 and his Ph.D. in 2012. Bshara has been the editor of Riwaq’s Monograph Series on Architectural History in Palestine since 2010. He edited, authored, and co-authored several books and articles.
