Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn (1 March 1951 – 23 June 2022) was a Palestinian author, professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB)'s Department of History and Archaeology, and an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society. He is a recognized authority on the history of Ottoman Syria, with emphasis on the areas later constituting modern Lebanon.

Life Abu-Husayn was born in 1951 in the Palestinian village of Nuba in the Hebron area, then immigrated to Jordan with his family. He ranked in the top 10 in the Tawjihi exams, scoring a 902 out of a possible 1000, which earned him a scholarship at AUB through USAID.

Abu-Husayn was mentored by the AUB's Kamal Salibi, a noted historian of Lebanon. Through the use of Ottoman imperial archives and other original sources from the Ottoman period, Abu-Husayn expanded on Salibi's work in this field, and successfully challenged many of the myths of Lebanese history during the Ottoman era.