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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Qais Madhi Farou was born in the village of Isfiya on Mount Carmel in the occupied interior on June 21, 1944. He is married and has two sons and a daughter. He studied primary school at Isfiya Elementary School, secondary school at the Arab Orthodox College in Haifa, and earned a bachelor's degree in Arabic language and general history from the University of Haifa, followed by a master's degree in general history from the same university, and a doctorate in modern history from the Center for Mediterranean Studies in France in 1980.
He worked as a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa since 1982, attained the rank of professor, was appointed head of several academic committees at the university, headed the Middle Eastern Department between (1997-2000), managed the Palestinian History Division at the Mada al-Carmel Center for Applied Studies, was one of the center’s most important researchers, and served as a member of the center’s administrative board.
He participated in scientific conferences in several countries, supervised a number of master's and doctoral theses, and wrote on the economic history of Palestine and the Levant, the study of minorities, the emergence of nationalist thought and its discourses, and focused specifically on the history of the Druze. He also engaged in theoretical studies of history and published nine books (some in Arabic, others in English and Hebrew), as well as a number of studies, research papers, and scholarly articles. His books include: *Silk in Lebanon: Socio-Economic Changes 1860-1914* (1986), *From the History of the Druze* (1992), *The Druze in the Jewish State: A Brief History* (in English, 1999), *The Invention of Lebanon: Nationalism and the State under the Mandate* (in English, 2003), for which he received the Middle East Centre International Award, as it was considered one of the five best books published in Britain on the Middle East, *The Changing Concept of the Nation: The Rise of Arabism and the Problem of Minorities 1855-1940* (in English, 2009), and *Lebanon: The Challenge of Difference 1943-1976 (in Hebrew), Historical Knowledge in the West: Philosophical, Scientific and Literary Approaches (2013), The Culture of the Arab Renaissance and Discourses of Collective Identities in Egypt and the Levant (2017), and Druze in a Time of Neglect: From the Palestinian Plow to the Israeli Rifle (2019).
He received numerous awards and accolades.
He was diagnosed with cancer and died on September 11, 2019.
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