From 2016 to 2018 he was the director of The Palestinian Museum in Birzeit (25 km north of Jerusalem), which was officially inaugurated in May 2016.
[1] Mahmoud Hawari was born in Tarshiha, Israel, and received master's and PhD degrees from the University of London.
[2] He was appointed in May 2016, two weeks before the museum's opening, and succeeded Jack Persekian, who resigned over disagreements with the board after three and a half years.
[1][3] Hawari was previously a research associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, and a curator at the British Museum in London.
[3] In May 2016 he was preparing a book, The Citadel of Jerusalem: A Comprehensive Archaeological and Architectural Study, Monograph of the British Academy by Oxford University Press.