Rashid Khalidi, the renowned Arab American Scholar, and the person who occupies Edward Said’s chair currently in Columbia University, will be visiting Dearborn on February 26, 2020 hosted by AlNadwa Free Thinking Society. AlNadwa is hosting a lecture titled The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine at the Arab American National Museum Auditorium at 6:30PM.
Event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/173804317194808/
Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد خالدي; born 1948) is a Palestinian American historian of the Middle East, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He also is known for serving as editor of the scholarly journal Journal of Palestine Studies.
Khalidi’s latest book titled The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine is “A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.”
“Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members―mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists―The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.
Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.”
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Rashid Khalidi received his BA from Yale in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1974. He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of: Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor ofPalestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991).
Courses
- Modern Middle Eastern History
- The United States, the Middle East and the Cold War
- Islamic Movements in the Modern Middle East
- Senior Seminar: Orientalism and the Historiography of the Other
- Seminar: Modern History of Palestine
- Seminar: Nationalism in the Arab World
Awards
- WOCMES Seville 2018 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Middle Eastern Studies
- Lionel Trilling Book Award for Brokers of Deceit, 2014
- MEMO Palestine Book Awards, 2013: Academic Winner
- Arab American National Museum Book Award for The Iron Cage, 2007
- Lenfest Teaching Award, 2007
- Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani Book Award, for Resurrecting Empire, 2004
- Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani Book Award for Palestinian Identity, 1997
Affiliations
- Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies
- Co-Director, Center for Palestine Studies
- Member, Faculty Fellowships Committee, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member, Conseil Scientifique, Ramses2, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence
- Member, Conseil Scientifique, Institut Méditérranean d’Études et Recherches Avancés, Marseille
- Member, Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East
- Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East
Publications
Books
British Policy towards Syria and Palestine 1906-1914: The Antecedents of the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Agreements and the Balfour Declaration (1980)
Palestine and the Gulf: Proceedings of an International Seminar (co-editor, 1982)
The Origins of Arab Nationalism (co-editor, 1991)
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004)
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006)
Sowing Crisis: American Hegemony and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009)
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997). Reissued with new preface (2010)
Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013)
Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War (1985). Reissued with new preface (2014)
Recent Scholarly Articles
“The Future of Arab Jerusalem.” In Arab Nation, Arab Nationalism, 19-40. Edited by Derek Hopwood. Vol. 2, London: MacMillans/St. Antony’s College, 2000.
“Intellectual Life in Late Ottoman Jerusalem.” In Ottoman Jerusalem: The Living City, 1517-1917, 221-228. Edited by Sylvia Auld and Robert Hillenbrand. London and Jerusalem: British School of Archaeology and World of Islam Festival Trust, 2000.
“The Palestinians and 1948: The Underlying Causes of Failure.” In The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, 12-36. Edited by Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
“Perceptions and Reality: The Arab World and the West.” In The Revolutionary Middle East in 1958, 181-208. Edited by Wm. Roger Louis. Washington, D. C. and London: Woodrow Wilson Press and I.B. Tauris, 2002.
“Arab Society in Mandatory Palestine: The Half-Full Glass?” In Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, 229-246. Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem and Ursula Wokök, eds. Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 2002.
“Concluding Remarks.” In The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective, 695-704. Edited by Nadine Méouchi and Peter Sluglett. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
“The Past and Future of Democracy in the Middle East.” Macalester International, 14 (Spring 2004), 3-17.
“A Research Agenda for Writing the History of Jerusalem.” In Pilgrims, Lepers & Stuffed Cabbage: Essays on Jerusalem’s Cultural History, 12-27. Edited by Issam Nassar and Salim Tamari. Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 2005.
“The Place of the Middle East in the International System.” The Middle East: Challenge and Response. Bir Zeit: Bir Zeit University, 2005, 5-16.
“Resurrecting Empire: The End of Year II of the Occupation of Iraq.” 2005 Farhat J. Ziadeh Diistinguished Lecture in Arabic and Islamic Studies. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, Seattle, 2005, 10 pp.
“Iraq and American Empire.” New Political Science, 28, 1, March 2006, 125-135.
“International Law and Legitimacy and the Palestine Question.” Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 30, 2 (Winter 2007) 173-180.
“The United States and Palestine.” In The Future of Palestine and Israel: From Colonial Roots to Post-Colonial Realities, 272-298. Edited by Aslam Farouk-Alli. Midrand, South Africa: Institute for Global Dialogue & Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2007.
“Edward Said and Palestine: Balancing the Academic and the Political, the Public and the Private.” In Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said, 44-52. Edited by Muge Sokmen and Basak Ertur. London: Verso, 2008.
“Anti-Zionism, Arabism and Palestinian Identity: ‘Isa al-‘Isa and Filastin.” In Configuring Identity in the Modern Arab East, 83-96. Edited by Samir Seikaly. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2009.
“Palestine and the Middle East: From Vienna to Washington, 1815-2005.” In Transformed Landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honor of Walid Khalidi, 299-316. Edited by Camille Mansour and Leila Fawaz. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2009.
“La crise dans le système politique palestinien.” Politique Etrangère, 3 (2009) 1-13.
“The 1967 War and the Demise of Arab Nationalism: Chronicle of a Death Foretold.” In The June 1967 War: Origins and Consequences, 264-284. Edited by Wm. Roger Louis and Avi Shlaim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
“The United States and the Palestinians, 1977-2012: Three Key Moments.” Journal of Palestine Studies, 42, 4 (Summer 2013) 61-72.
“1948 and after in Palestine: Universal Themes?” In Critical Inquiry special issue “Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Transformation,” edited by Lisa Wedeen and Leela Gandhi, 40 (Summer, 2014) 314-331.
“Les Etas-Unis, un tropisme pro-israélien.” In Palestine: le jeu des puissants, 17-48. Edited by Dominique Vidal. Paris: Sindbad/Actes Sud, 2014. [English version: “The United States and Palestine: Understanding Seven Decades of Failed American Policy.” Cairo Review, 17 (2015) 30-49.]
“The Persistence of the Sykes-Picot Frontiers in the Middle East.” London Review of International Law, 4, 2 (2016) 347-357.
“Legacies of Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age.” In Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda, 375-386. Edited by Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, November 2016.
Unhealed Wounds of World War I: Armenia, Kurdistan, Palestine.” In The Arabs and the Armenian Genocide. Edited by Emre Daglioglu and Umit Kurt, Istanbul: Iltesim Publishing forthcoming, 2017 [Turkish].
“The Superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East.” In The Middle East and the United States: History, Politics and Ideology, 157-176. Edited by David Lesch and Mark Haas, 6th edition, Boulder: Westview, forthcoming, 2017.
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