Professor of history and the inaugural holder of the Mahmoud Darwish Professorship of Palestinian Studies at Brown University. His research focuses on peoples, places, and time periods marginalized by mainstream scholarship on the early modern and modern Middle East. Doumani is editor of the New Directions in Palestinian Studies book series with the University of California Press and co-editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly. He is currently working on a history of the Palestinians through the social life of stone.