Hamdan Taha is an independent researcher and a former deputy minister of the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and director general of the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage (1995–2014). He is coeditor with Ingrid Hjelm, Ilan Pappe, and Thomas L. Thompson of A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine: Palestine History and Heritage Project 1 (Routledge, 2019).