Rashid Khalidi
Department of History
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 the University of Chicago. He is past President of the Middle East Studies Association, and the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Khalidi is the author of the forthcoming The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017; Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013), winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award and the MEMO Book Award, translated into Arabic; 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), winner, Arab-American Museum Book Award, translated into French, Turkish, Arabic and Hebrew; Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004), translated into French, Italian, Spanish and Arabic; Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997) co-winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Prize, translated into Arabic, French, Italian and Spanish and Arabic, reissued with a new introduction in 2010; Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War (1986), translated into Arabic and Hebrew and reissued with a new preface in 2014; and British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980). He is the co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf, 1982, and The Origins of Arab Nationalism, 1991, and has written over 115 scholarly articles.
