The Palestine Exploration Fund
The PEF was founded in 1865 and is the oldest organization in the world created specifically for the study of the Levant, the southern portion of which was conventionally known as ‘Palestine’.
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Watch our latest videos on our YouTube channel. Our new video is an interview by Felicity Cobbing, Chief Executive and Curator of the Palestine Exploration Fund, with Dr. Mahmoud Hawari about the Landscape of Umayyad Khirbat al-Mafjar in the Jericho Oasis. Dr Mahmoud Hawari is currently teaching at Bethlehem University in Palestine. He was Lead Curator for the Sheikh Zaid National Museum Project in Abu Dhabi, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford.
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2021 Annual Research Grant Awards
Alexandra Ariotti, Independent “Dating the Lost Fortress of Umm Tawabin” £2,500 Melissa Cradic & Samuel Pfister, Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion Digitising Primary Source
Elizabeth Anne Finn, 1825-1921
Born in 1825 in Warsaw to the future professor of Hebrew at King’s College London, Elizabeth Anne McCaul; later Finn, started and ended her life
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1814-1906
Angela Burdett-Coutts (born Angela Georgina Burdett) was born in 1814 into the prestigious Coutts family, as the granddaughter of the banker Thomas Coutts.
Yusif Khattar Kana’an
Yusif Khattar Kana’an’s name won’t be familiar to most people interested in the Palestine Exploration Fund or early archaeology in the Middle East. Unlike the
The Palestine Exploration Fund/Albright Institute Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that the PEF-AIAR Fellow for 2021 is Dr. Morag Kersel (DePaul University) for her research project “Hidden Histories – the
The Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award for 2021. Details of the winners and their