Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi is a Jerusalemite scholar and peace activist. He holds a doctorate from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (1981) and another from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas (1984). He is the author of numerous books and academic articles. In 2007 he established the Wasatia moderate Islamic movement in Palestine and the Wasatia Academic Institute in Jerusalem. In April 2014, he was forced to resign from his posts as Director of Libraries and founding director of the American Studies Institute at Al-Quds University (2002-2014) for taking his students on an educational trip to the Nazi death concentration camp in Auschwitz to teach them about the Holocaust. He received death threats, and his car was torched. In 2014 Tufts University bestowed on him the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award in recognition of his ongoing work to build peace, encourage dialogue and find alternatives to violence.