Dr. Khaldun Bshara (PhD. Socio-cultural Anthropology) is an architect, restorer and anthropologist. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Birzeit University, and serves as a senior advisor for the Ramallah-based Riwaq - Centre for Agricultural Conservation , where he has worked since 1994 (serving as director between 2010 and2020) in documenting, protecting and restoring built Palestinian heritage. Bshara received his B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering from Birzeit University in1996 and his MA in Conservation from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2000.

Interested in refugees, space and memory, he joined the University of California Irvine on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he obtained MA in Anthropology in 2009 and his PhD in 2012. Bshara has served as the editor of Riwaq’s Monograph Series on Architectural History in Palestine since 2010.