Dr. Da'adli is an art historian, archeologist, and historian of Israel/Palestine. As an archeologist, he excavated several sites, many of them in the Jerusalem area (Mamluk Cotton Market, Khan Al-Zait Market, and Nebi Musa). Using art-historical tools, he examined the painting school in Herat (in today's Afghanistan) in the second half of the 15th century, in the days of Sultan Hussain, the last Timur ruler. Da'adli's current studies focus on the cities of the Palestine coastal area - Lydda, Ramla and Jaffa, and their surrounding villages - in an attempt to understand urbanism from the late Ottoman period to 1948 through the written word.

Courses taught:

The Human Figure in Islamic Art; India Under Islam; Methods for the Study of Local History

Recent publications:

Tawfiq Da'adli. 2024. "Something Old, Something New: Conducting Community Archaeology at the Wrong Site". In Community Archaeology in Israel/Palestine, edited by R. Kletter, L. Kolska Horwitz, and E. Pfoh. Equinox, 93-110.
Tawfiq Daʿadli. 2024. "Walking with Ghosts along the Bazar: Urban life in Ludd, Palestine". Palestine/Israel Review 1: 1-30.
Tawfiq Daʿadli. 2022. “The Waqfs of Hajja Sitt Ikhwitha and Khalil Dahmash in the City of al-Lid, Local Agents of Urban Changes”. In From the Household to the Wider World: Urban Governance in Late Ottoman Bilad al-Sham, edited by in J. Büssow and Y. Ben-Bassat . Tübingen: Tübingen University Press, 111-???