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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. He is past President of the Middle East Studies Association, and the co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. 

Khalidi is the author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, 2020 which was published in German this spring. His book talks in Berlin and Vienna can only happen online according to his publisher. Khalidi spoke to me for an interview for Tagesspiegel in Berlin. Both he and Tagesspiegel gave Falter Radio permission for this podcast. 

Publications

• 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)

Co-editor of:

• Palestine and the Gulf (1982)

• The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991)