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-bahth 'an 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-'arabi (The stakes of the nahda in Arab thought)
• Tayar al-islah ad-dini wa-masa'irihi fi-l-mujtama'at il-'arabiyya (The religious reformist current and its future in Arab societies) conference papers, co-edited with Salam al-Kawakibi.