Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh is a poet and academic born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian refugee family from Ramlah. He is an associate professor of philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University. Al-Shaikh's work is focused on cultural representations and the politics of Palestinian identity, in addition to his works on Arab poetry, art criticism, and translation. He earned his Ph.D. in Middle East and Arab Studies at the University of Utah, after which he conducted his postdoctoral research in cultural mobility in near-eastern cultures at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at both Muwatin-The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy and the Institute of Palestine Studies. Al-Shaikh is currently a Fulbright Visiting Senior Scholar at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University researching "The Palestinian Living Cemetery." His last book is: The Biography of Gabi Baramki and His Odyssey at Birzeit University 1929-2012 (2015/Arabic).