Maher Charif
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Maher Charif (Arabic: ماهر الشريف, transliterated Mahir ash-Sharif) is a Palestinian Marxist historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and the history of Arab political movements.
Charif, a Palestinian refugee resident in Syria, has been a member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian People's Party, and is a frequent commentator on politics and society in Arab newspapers.
His works include:
- Al-ba'th 3an kiyan (the search for an entity), on the ideological evolution of Palestinian political movements
- Filastin fi'l-arshif as-sirri li'l-komintern (Palestine in the secret archive of the Comintern)
- Rihanat an-nahda fi'l-fikr al-3arabi (The stakes of the nahda in Arab thought)
- Tayar al-islah ad-dini wa masa'irihi fi'l-mujtama3at il-3arabiyya (The religious reformist current and its future in Arab societies) conference papers, co-edited with Salam al-Kawakibi.