Hisham Sharabi (Arabic: هشام الشرابي) (1927 Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine – 2005 Beirut, Lebanon)[1] was a Palestinian historian and writer.
Politically active from a young age, Sharabi then returned to serve as editor of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party’s monthly magazine al-Jil al-Jadid (The New Generation).
Forced to flee to Jordan after the parties disbanding in 1949, Sharabi returned to the United States where he completed a Ph.D. in the history of culture, again at the University at Chicago.
[7] In 1991, he formed what is now known as the Palestine Center, which serves as a think tank educating the general public on Palestinian Political Issues.
In honor of his work in both the European and Arab fields, the Department of history at Georgetown convened an international two-day symposium in 2002 titled ‘The Role of the Intellectual in Contemporary Political Life.’ Also named in his honor is the annual Hisham Sharabi graduate essay contest, begun by the Department's graduate students upon Sharabi's retirement in 1998.