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|name = Rashid Khalidi | |||
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|birth_name = Rashid Ismail Khalidi | ||
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|caption = Rashid Khalidi speaking at ]<br> on January 23, 2009.<br> Photo by Thomas Good / NLN | |||
| native_name = {{Script|Arabic|رشيد إسماعيل خالدي}} | |||
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|known_for = Histories of nationalism and colonialism<br/> in Palestine and the Middle East | |||
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'''Rashid Ismail Khalidi''' (born 1950), an American ] of the ], is the ] Professor of Modern Arab Studies at ],<ref name = "MEICV">{{cite web | |||
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</ref> and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's ]. | |||
'''Rashid Ismail Khalidi''' ({{Langx|ar|رشيد خالدي}}; born 18 November 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the ] Professor ] of Modern Arab Studies at ].<ref name="MEICV">{{cite web| url = http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Khalidi.html| title = Department of History: Rashid Khalidi| access-date = December 30, 2016| publisher = Columbia University| archive-date = August 1, 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170801043829/http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Khalidi.html| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name=columbia /> He served as editor of the '']'' from 2002 until 2020, when he became co-editor with ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|title=The Journal of Palestine Studies in the Twenty-First Century: An Editor's Reflections |url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1651577 |access-date=28 May 2024 |journal=Institute for Palestine Studies |language=en |volume=50 |issue=3 |date=2021 |doi=10.1080/0377919X.2021.1933101 |last1=Khalidi |first1=Rashid I. |pages=5–17 }}</ref> | |||
==Family, education and career== | |||
He has authored a number of books, including '']'' and ''Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness''; has served as president of the ]; and has taught at the ], the ], ], and the ].<ref name=columbia>{{Cite web |date=2016-09-02 |title=Khalidi, Rashid |url=https://history.columbia.edu/person/khalidi-rashid/ |access-date=28 May 2024 |website=Department of History - Columbia University |language=en-US}}</ref> Khalidi retired from Columbia University on October 8, 2024.<ref name="Iqbal" /> | |||
Khalidi was born in ]. Khalidi is the son of ] and the nephew of ].<ref name = "IK-Obit">{{cite news | |||
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Khalidi was born in New York City. Khalidi is the son of ] and the nephew of ].<ref name = "IK-Obit">{{cite news | |||
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| title = Ismail Khalidi, 52, U.N. Official, Dies | |||
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| date = September 6, 1968 | | date = September 6, 1968 | ||
}}</ref> He is the father of ]. He grew up in New York City where his father, a Saudi citizen<ref name = "IK-Obit" /> of |
}}</ref> He is the father of playwright ] and activist/attorney Dima Khalidi. He grew up in New York City, where his father, a Saudi citizen<ref name = "IK-Obit" /> of Palestinian origin who was born in ],<ref name = "SantoraGootman">{{cite news | ||
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| title = Rashid Khalidi, at the Center of a Political Storm | ||
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</ref> worked for the ].<ref name = "IK-Obit" /><ref name = "McCarthy">{{cite web | </ref> worked for the ].<ref name = "IK-Obit" /><ref name = "McCarthy">{{cite web | ||
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|title = In Obama's Hyde Park, It's All in the Family | ||
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|author2 = Rosett, Claudia | ||
|author2-link = Claudia Rosett | |||
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</ref> Khalidi's mother, a Lebanese-American Christian born in the United States, was an interior decorator. Khalidi attended the ].<ref name = "SantoraGootman" /> | |||
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}}</ref> Khalidi's mother, a Lebanese-American, was an interior decorator. Khalidi attended the ].<ref name = "SantoraGootman" /> | |||
In 1970, Khalidi received a B.A. from ],<ref name = "UofC">{{cite web | In 1970, Khalidi received a B.A. from ],<ref name = "UofC">{{cite web | ||
| url = http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/facultypages/khalidi/ | | url = http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/facultypages/khalidi/ | ||
| title = Rashid Khalidi |
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| publisher = ] | | publisher = ] | ||
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060910232408/http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/facultypages/khalidi/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = September 10, 2006}} | |||
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</ref> where he was a member of ].<ref>2006 Phelps Association Directory</ref> He then received a D. |
</ref> where he was a member of the ].<ref>2006 Phelps Association Directory</ref> He then received a D.Phil. from ] in 1974.<ref name = "MEICV" /> Between 1976 and 1983, Khalidi "was teaching full time as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept. at the ], published two books and several articles, and also was a research fellow at the independent ]".<ref name = "WP_TF2">{{cite news | ||
| url = http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jul/08/20040708-083635-4366r/ | | url = http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jul/08/20040708-083635-4366r/ | ||
| title = Arafat minion as professor | | title = Arafat minion as professor | ||
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| date = July 8, 2004 | |||
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| quote = <small>In reply to our questions, he wrote that between 1976 and 1983, "I was teaching full time as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept. at the American University of Beirut, published two books and several articles, and also was a research fellow at the independent Institute for Palestine Studies," and says he had no time for anything else. Mr. Khalidi dismisses the allegation that he served as a PLO spokesman, saying, "I often spoke to journalists in Beirut, who usually cited me without attribution as a well-informed Palestinian source. If some misidentified me at the time, I am not aware of it."</small> | |||
| quote = In reply to our questions, he wrote that between 1976 and 1983, "I was teaching full time as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept. at the American University of Beirut, published two books and several articles, and also was a research fellow at the independent Institute for Palestine Studies," and says he had no time for anything else. Mr. Khalidi dismisses the allegation that he served as a PLO spokesman, saying, "I often spoke to journalists in Beirut, who usually cited me without attribution as a well-informed Palestinian source. If some misidentified me at the time, I am not aware of it." | |||
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</ref> He has also taught at the ].<ref name = "UofC" /> | </ref> He has also taught at the ].<ref name = "UofC" /> | ||
Khalidi became politically active in Beirut, where he resided through the 1982 Lebanon War. |
Khalidi became politically active in ], where he resided through the ]. "I was deeply involved in politics in Beirut" in the 1970s, he said in an interview.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.4/khalidi.htm|title=Rashid Khalidi on the Middle East: A Conversation|website=Logos Journal |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051124133115/http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.4/khalidi.htm |archive-date=24 November 2005}}</ref> Khalidi was cited in the media during this period, sometimes as an official with the Palestinian News Service, ], or directly with the ].<ref> | ||
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* {{cite news |title=Palestinians, People in Crisis, Are Scattered and Divided; The Palestinians First-of a Series |work=] |date=February 19, 1978 |page=1 |first=James M. |last=Markham |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/19/archives/palestinians-people-in-crisis-are-scattered-and-divided-the.html}} | ||
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* {{cite news |title=Ultimate Goals of the Attack are Assessed Differently from the Two Sides |work=] |date=June 9, 1982 |first= David K. |last=Shipler |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/09/world/ultimate-goals-attack-are-assessed-differently-two-sides-analysis.html}} | ||
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* {{cite news |title=Account of PLO Talks Questioned; Reagan Unaware of Such Contacts, His National Security Aide Declares" |first=Doyle |last=McManus |work=] |location=Los Angeles, Calif. |date=February 20, 1984 |page=A10}} | ||
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* {{cite news |title=Lebanon War Hurts Palestinian Cause |first=Joe Alex |last=Morris Jr. |work=] |date=September 5, 1976}} | ||
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* {{cite web |title=The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Palestine Liberation Organization |date=1979 |publisher=] |url=https://archive.org/details/Az0396TheGunAndTheOliveBrance-thePlo_434}}</ref> Khalidi has said that he was not a PLO spokesman,<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=McCain Again Points to Obama's Associates |author=Michael D. Shear |date=October 30, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |publisher=CNN |title=Palin accuses Obama of ties to second 'radical professor' |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/campaign.wrap/index.html|date=October 29, 2008 |first1=Dana |last1=Bash |first2=Peter |last2=Hamby |work=CNN}}</ref> and that he "often spoke to journalists in Beirut, who usually cited me without attribution as a well-informed Palestinian source. If some misidentified me at the time, I am not aware of it."<ref name = "WP_TF2" /> Subsequently, sources disagreed as to the nature or existence of Khalidi's official relationship with the organization.<ref> | ||
* {{cite news |first=James |last=Rainey |date=October 30, 2008 |title=McCain, Palin demand L.A. Times release Obama video |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-newvideo30-2008oct30,0,5073968.story |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412122126/http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-newvideo30-2008oct30%2C0%2C5073968.story |archive-date=April 12, 2009 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} | |||
*{{cite news|title=Mideast Parley Takes Ugly Turn At Columbia U.|author=Sol Stern and Fred Siegel|publisher=New York Sun|date=2005-02-04|url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/mideast-parley-takes-ugly-turn-at-columbia-u/8725/}} | |||
* {{cite news |first1=Sol |last1=Stern |first2=Fred |last2=Siegel |date=February 4, 2005 |title=Mideast Parley Takes Ugly Turn At Columbia U. |url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/mideast-parley-takes-ugly-turn-at-columbia-u/8725/ |newspaper=The New York Sun |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20081016233823/http://www.nysun.com/new-york/mideast-parley-takes-ugly-turn-at-columbia-u/8725/ |archive-date=16 October 2008}} | |||
*{{cite news|publisher=Washington Post|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/|title=John McCain's 'Trick or Treat'?|date=2008-10-30|author=Michael Dobbs}} | |||
* {{cite news |first=Michael |last=Dobbs |date=October 30, 2008 |title=John McCain's 'Trick or Treat'? |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/john_mccains_trick_or_treat.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20110917095321/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/john_mccains_trick_or_treat.html |archive-date=17 September 2011}} | |||
*Khalidi of the PLO, ] | |||
* {{cite web |title=Khalidi of the PLO |author-link=Martin Kramer |first=Martin |last=Kramer |url=http://www.martinkramer.org/sandbox/2008/10/khalidi-of-the-plo/ |date=30 October 2008 |access-date=28 May 2024}} | |||
*So busted! ]• November 3, 2008 | |||
* {{cite web |title=So busted! |author-link=Ron Kampeas |first=Ron |last=Kampeas |date=November 3, 2008 |url=http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2008/11/03/1000727/so-busted |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20101117161840/https://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2008/11/03/1000727/so-busted |archive-date=17 November 2010}} | |||
*] ] | |||
* {{cite news |author-link=Thomas Lippman |first=Thomas |last=Lippman |newspaper=] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103603_3.html |title=Letters to the Editor: Some Closing Thoughts |date=1 November 2008 |access-date=28 May 2024}} | |||
*{{cite news|publisher=Haaretz|date=2008-06-12|title=Obama's 'Palestinian friend' laments catastrophic U.S. policy in Mideast|author=Akiva Eldar|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043689.html}}</ref> | |||
* {{cite news |author=Akiva Eldar |date=December 5, 2008 |title=Obama's 'Palestinian friend' laments catastrophic U.S. policy in Mideast |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043689.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206000554/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043689.html |archive-date=December 6, 2008 |access-date=August 24, 2012 |work=Haaretz}}</ref> | |||
Returning to America, Khalidi spent two years teaching at ] before joining the faculty of the ] in 1987 where he spent eight years as a professor and director of both the ] and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago.<ref name ="Wolf">{{cite |
Returning to America, Khalidi spent two years teaching at ] before joining the faculty of the ] in 1987, where he spent eight years as a professor and director of both the ] and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago.<ref name ="Wolf">{{cite news | ||
| url = http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2003/1/31/khalidi-accepts-chair-offer-from-columbia | | url = http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2003/1/31/khalidi-accepts-chair-offer-from-columbia | ||
| title = Khalidi accepts chair offer from Columbia | | title = Khalidi accepts chair offer from Columbia | ||
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| last = Wolf | | last = Wolf | ||
| first = Isaac | | first = Isaac | ||
| date = January 31, 2003 | | date = January 31, 2003 | ||
| newspaper = ] |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20081204084352/http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2003/1/31/khalidi-accepts-chair-offer-from-columbia |archive-date=4 December 2008 | |||
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</ref> During the ], while teaching at Chicago, Khalidi |
</ref> During the ], while teaching at Chicago, Khalidi emerged "as one of the most influential commentators from within Middle Eastern Studies".<ref>{{cite web |author=Kramer, Martin |title=Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America |location=Washington |website=Washington Institute for Near East Policy |date=1 October 2001 |url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/ivory-towers-sand-failure-middle-eastern-studies-america |access-date=28 May 2024}}</ref> In 2003 he joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he currently serves as the ] Professor of Modern Arab Studies. He has also taught at ].<ref name = "UofC"/> | ||
Khalidi is married to ], who |
Khalidi is married to ], who served as assistant dean of student affairs and the assistant director of graduate studies of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.<ref name = "Mona">{{cite web | ||
|url= http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/staff/mk2388-staff.html | |url= http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/staff/mk2388-staff.html | ||
|title= Mona Khalidi | |title= Mona Khalidi | ||
|access-date= March 12, 2008 | |||
|accessdate= 2008-03-12 | |||
|year= 2006 | |year= 2006 | ||
|work= SIPA Staff | |work= SIPA Staff | ||
|publisher= ] | |publisher= ] | ||
|archive-date= February 23, 2008 | |||
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|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080223121614/http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/staff/mk2388-staff.html | |||
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He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, which describes itself as "a national organization of Jews, Christians and Muslims dedicated to dialogue, education and advocacy for peace based on the deepest teachings of the three religious traditions."<ref name = "assoc">{{cite web | |||
}}</ref> He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, which describes itself as "a national organization of Jews, Christians and Muslims dedicated to dialogue, education and advocacy for peace based on the deepest teachings of the three religious traditions". | |||
| url = http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rashid_Khalidi/ | |||
| title = Sourcewatch | |||
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He is member of the Board of Sponsors of The ], a publication founded by Ziad |
He is member of the Board of Sponsors of ''The ]'', a publication founded by ] and Victor Cygielman, prominent Palestinian and Israeli journalists.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.pij.org/about.php |title=About PIJ | website=Palestine – Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture |access-date=28 May 2024}}</ref> He is founding trustee of The Center for Palestine Research and Studies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cprs-palestine.org/about/board.html |title=About CPRS: Board of Trustees |access-date=May 20, 2017 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001209082600/http://www.cprs-palestine.org/about/board.html |archive-date=December 9, 2000 }}</ref> He is also a member of the ]. | ||
In October 2010, Khalidi delivered the annual ] at the ] in Washington.<ref>{{cite web|last=Khalidi|first=Rashid|title=The Palestine Question and the U.S. Public Sphere|url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/16422/pid/897|publisher=Palestine Center|access-date=October 11, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011091713/http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/16422/pid/897|archive-date=October 11, 2010|date=7 October 2010}}</ref> | |||
He is founding trustee of The Center for Palestine Research and Studies.<ref></ref> | |||
==Academic work== | ==Academic work== | ||
Khalidi's research covers primarily the history of the modern Middle East. He focuses on the countries of the ] and ], with an eye to the emergence of various national identities and the role played by external powers in their development. He also researches the impact of the media, the role of education in the construction of political identity, and the way regional narratives have developed over the past centuries.<ref name = "MEICV"/>{{failed verification|date=December 2016}} Michael C. Hudson, director of the ] at Georgetown, describes Khalidi as "preeminent in his field".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22577-2004May12.html |title=The Knowledge That Doesn't Equal Power |first=Philip |last=Kennicott |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 13, 2004 |access-date=28 May 2024}}</ref> He served as president of the ] in 1994 and is currently co-editor of the '']'' with ].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=jps&jDetail=editorial |title=Journal of Palestine Studies |publisher=University of California |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011182701/http://ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=jps&jDetail=editorial |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |access-date=January 25, 2009}}</ref> | |||
Much of Khalidi's scholarly work in the 1990s focused on the historical construction of nationalism in the Arab world. Drawing on the work of theorist ] who described nations as "]", he does not posit primordial national identities, but |
Much of Khalidi's scholarly work in the 1990s focused on the historical construction of nationalism in the Arab world. Drawing on the work of theorist ] who described nations as "]", he does not posit primordial national identities, but argues that these nations have legitimacy and rights. In ''Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness'' (1997), he places the emergence of Palestinian national identity in the context of ] and British colonialism as well as the early ] in the ]. ''Palestinian Identity'' won the ]'s top honor, the ] as best book of 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mesa.wns.ccit.arizona.edu/excellence/hourani_winners_list.htm |title=Albert Hourani Book Award Recipients, 1991–2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815195159/http://mesa.wns.ccit.arizona.edu/excellence/hourani_winners_list.htm |archive-date=August 15, 2007 }}</ref> | ||
His dating of the emergence of Palestinian nationalism to the early 20th century and his tracing of its contours provide a rejoinder to Israeli nationalist claims that Palestinians had no collective claims prior to the 1948 creation of Israel. His signature work, ''Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness'' (Columbia University Press, 1997), argues that Arabs living in Palestine began to regard themselves as a distinct people decades before 1948, "and that the struggle against Zionism does not by itself sufficiently explain Palestinian nationalism".<ref name=chronicle>{{cite web |url=http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2009-March/045483.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801011033/http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2009-March/045483.html|archive-date=August 1, 2010 |work=] |title=Rashid Khalidi's Balancing Act: The Middle-East scholar courts controversy with his Palestinian advocacy |first=Evan R. |last=Goldstein |date=March 6, 2009}}</ref> | |||
In ''Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East'' (2004), Khalidi takes readers on a historical tour of Western intervention in the Middle East, and argues that these interventions continue to have a ] nature that is both morally unacceptable and likely to backfire.{{fact|date=November 2008}} | |||
In it, Khalidi also describes the late development, failings and internal divisions within the various elements of the Palestinian nationalist movement. | |||
In ''Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East'' (2004), Khalidi follows the history of Western involvement in the Middle East, and describes it as ] in nature. He finds hat this morally unacceptable and likely to backfire. Khalidi's book, ''Sowing Crisis'', places the United States approach to the Middle East in historical context. He is sharply critical of U.S. policies during the ], writing that Cold War policies "formulated to oppose the Soviets, consistently undermined democracy and exacerbated tensions in the Middle East".<ref name=chronicle /> | |||
Khalidi has written, "It may seem hard to believe today, but for decades the United States was in fact a major patron, indeed in some respects ''the'' major patron, of earlier incarnations" of radical, militant Islam, in order to use all possible resources in waging the Cold War. He add:<blockquote>The Cold War was over, but its tragic sequels, its toxic debris, and its unexploded mines continued to cause great harm, in ways largely unrecognized in American discourse.<ref>{{cite book |author=Khalidi, Rashid |title=Sowing crisis: the Cold War and American dominance in the Middle East |date=2009 |page=34 |publisher=Beacon Press}}</ref></blockquote>Historian and Israeli Ambassador to the United States ] has stated that "Khalidi is mainstream" only because "the stream itself has changed. The criteria for scholarship have become very political."<ref name=chronicle /> | |||
===''Palestinian Identity''=== | ===''Palestinian Identity''=== | ||
In ''Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness'' (1997) cited book. Khalidi argues that a Palestinian national consciousness emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century. He describes the Arab population as having "overlapping identities", with some or many expressing loyalties to villages, regions, a projected nation of Palestine, an alternative of inclusion in a ], an Arab national project, as well as to Islam.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism |first=Michael |last=Provence |publisher=University of Texas Press |date=2005 |page=158}}</ref> Khalidi writes, "Local patriotism could not yet be described as nation-state nationalism."<ref>Khalidi, Palestinian Identity. p. 32</ref> | |||
Khalidi emphasized in his work that the Palestinian identity had been fundamentally fluid and changing, woven from multiple "narratives" due to individual and family experiences. He described the identity as organically developed due to the challenges of peasants forced from their homes due to Zionist immigrant pressure, but with ] also being far more complex than merely an anti-Zionist reaction. Praise for his book appeared in the journal '']'', with reviewer ] viewing the work as "a major contribution to historical understanding of Palestinian nationalism."<ref>{{Cite journal | url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/52996/william-b-quandt/palestinian-identity-the-construction-of-modern-national-conscio | title=Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness| journal=Foreign Affairs| issue=May/June 1997| date=January 28, 2009| volume=76| editor-last1=Qu| editor-first1=William B.}}</ref> | |||
''Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness'' (1997), is probably Khalidi's most influential book, and certainly the most widely cited. In ''Palestinian Identity,'' Khalidi demonstrates that a Palestinian national consciousness had it origins near the beginning of the twentieth century. This is not, however, the kind of simplistic reading that dates a nation's origin to a point in time. Rather, Khalidi describes the Arab population of British Mandatory Palestine as having "overlapping identities," with some or many expressing loyalties to villages, regions, a projected nation of Palestine, an alternative of inclusion in a Greater Syria, an Arab national project, as well as to Islam.<ref>The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, Michael Provence, University of Texas Press, 2005, p. 158</ref> Nevertheless, his book was the first to demonstrate substantive ] ] in the early Mandatory period. As Khalidi writes, "Local patriotism could not yet be described as nation-state nationalism."<ref>Khalidi, Palestinian Identity. p. 32</ref> | |||
Khalidi also |
Khalidi also documents active opposition by the Arab press to ] in the 1880s.<ref>{{cite book |title=] |author-link=Hillel Cohen |first=Hillel |last=Cohen |publisher=University of California Press |date=2008 |page=275, n.2}}</ref> | ||
=== ''The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood'' === | |||
===Criticism of Khalidi's scholarship=== | |||
{{Main article|The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood}} | |||
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In 2006, Khalidi published '']'' which critically examines the Palestinian struggle for statehood during the British Mandate. It highlights both the failures of Palestinian leadership and British and Zionist roles in hindering statehood for Palestine.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wilcox|first=Philip C.|journal=Middle East Policy|date=April 5, 2007 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=142–176|title=Book Reviews |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4967.2007.00291.x}}</ref><ref name="GnIB">{{cite news|last=Black|first=Ian|title=Divided loyalties: Ian Black wades into the troubled history of the Middle East with four books on Palestine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/politics|access-date=28 May 2024|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 17, 2007}}</ref><ref name="SnJS">{{cite news|last=Shainin|first=Jonathan|title=Nation Building|url=http://www.salon.com/2006/12/18/khalidi/|access-date=28 May 2024|newspaper=Salon|date=December 18, 2006}}</ref><ref name="FPLBrown">{{cite news|last=Brown|first=L. Carl|title=The Iron Cage: Palestinian Struggle for Statehood|url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/62231/l-carl-brown/the-iron-cage-the-story-of-the-palestinian-struggle-for-statehoo|access-date=28 May 2024|newspaper=]|date=January–February 2007}}</ref><ref name="Haber">{{cite news | |||
Khalidi has been criticized for being “factually wrong” in his citation of evidence. <ref>Editor’s Note appended to “What You Don’t Know About Gaza,” RASHID KHALIDI , New York Times, January 8, 2009 </ref><ref>”New York Times Corrects Khalidi Hoax Quote,” provides a list of four Khalidi published uses of an inaccurate quote, </ref><ref>“A Land without a People for a People without a Land; An oft-cited Zionist slogan was neither Zionist nor popular,"], Middle Eastern Quarterly, Spring 2008, Vol. 15, No. 2 </ref> Historian ] criticized Khalidi for a “blind nationalist belief” in the “absolute justice” of the Palestinian cause that reduces his academic work to the level of mere “political polemics.”<ref>”The Unbearable Lightness of My Critics, by Efraim Karsh, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2002 </ref> | |||
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</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/iron-illusions-of-rashid-khalidi/45182/ | title=The Iron Illusions of Rashid Khalidi|work=The New York Sun|first=Efraim|last=Karsh|date=December 14, 2006|access-date=October 4, 2021 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080526130159/http://www.nysun.com/arts/iron-illusions-of-rashid-khalidi/45182/ |archive-date=26 May 2008}}</ref> | |||
==Public life== | ==Public life== | ||
Khalidi has written dozens of scholarly articles on Middle East history and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in many U.S. newspapers. He has also been a guest on |
Khalidi has written dozens of scholarly articles on Middle East history and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in many U.S. newspapers.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rashid Khalidi {{!}} MESAAS|url=https://mesaas.columbia.edu/faculty-directory/rashid-khalidi/|access-date=28 May 2024|website=Columbia University|date=September 28, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> He has also been a guest on radio and TV shows including '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']'', and has appeared on the ], the ], ] and the ]. He served as president of the American Committee on Jerusalem, now known as the ], and from 1991 to 1993 served as an official advisor to the joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation—later transitioning to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) delegation — during the ] and the ensuing Israeli-Palestinian-American negotiations in Washington.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Toensing|first=Chris|date=April 20, 2013|title=A Dishonest Umpire|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2013/04/a-dishonest-umpire/|access-date=28 May 2024|website=Jacobin|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Morris |first=Benny |date=2020 |title=The War on History |url=https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/7210/the-war-on-history/# |access-date= |website=Jewish Review of Books |language=en-us}}</ref> | ||
===Views on |
===Views on Israeli–Palestinian conflict=== | ||
Khalidi has written that the establishment of the state of Israel resulted in "the uprooting of the world's oldest and most secure Jewish communities, which had found in the Arab lands a tolerance that, albeit imperfect, was nonexistent in the often genocidal, Jew-hating Christian West." Regarding the proposed ] to the |
Khalidi has written that the establishment of the state of Israel resulted in "the ] of the world's oldest and most secure Jewish communities, which had found in the Arab lands a tolerance that, albeit imperfect, was nonexistent in the often genocidal, Jew-hating Christian West." Regarding the proposed ] to the ], Khalidi has written that "the now universally applauded two-state solution faces the juggernaut of Israel's actions in the occupied territories over more than forty years, actions that have been expressly designed to make its realization in any meaningful form impossible." However, Khalidi also noted that "there are also flaws in the alternatives, grouped under the rubric of the ]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/palestine-liberation-deferred/ |first=Rashid |last=Khalidi |website=The Nation |date=May 8, 2008 |access-date=28 May 2024 |title=Palestine: Liberation Deferred}}</ref> | ||
He supports the ] movement.<ref name="BDS">{{cite news|title=40 Columbia University professors sign BDS petition|url=http://www.jta.org/2016/03/01/news-opinion/united-states/40-columbia-profs-sign-bds-petition|access-date=28 May 2024|publisher=]|date=March 1, 2016}}</ref> | |||
Regarding American support for Israel, Khalidi stated in an interview that "every other single place on the face of the earth is in support of the Palestinians, yet all of them together aren't a hill of beans compared to the United States and Israel, because the United States and Israel can basically do anything they please. They are the world superpower, they are the regional superpower."<ref>, Interview with Rashid Khalidi, ''North Coast Xpress'', Spring 2001(retrieved on October 21, 2008.</ref> | |||
Regarding American support for Israel, Khalidi stated in an interview, "every other single place on the face of the earth is in support of the Palestinians, yet all of them together aren't a hill of beans compared to the United States and Israel, because the United States and Israel can basically do anything they please. They are the world superpower, they are the regional superpower."<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429164850/http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/01-03-SPR/thecrisis.html |archive-date=April 29, 2008 |title=Jordan Elgrably Interviews Rashid Khalidi: The Crisis of our Times – Nationalism, Identity, and the Future of Israel-Palestine |publisher=North Coast Xpress |date=Spring 2001 |access-date=October 21, 2008 |url=http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/01-03-SPR/thecrisis.html}}</ref> | |||
A '']'' editorial criticized Khalidi for stating that there is a legal right under international law for Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation.<ref name = "NYSunRoR">{{cite web | |||
| url = http://www.nysun.com/article/10510 | |||
A '']'' editorial criticized Khalidi for stating that there is a legal right under international law for Palestinians to resist what Khalidi considers to be Israeli occupation.<ref name = "NYSunRoR">{{cite news | |||
| title = Right of Resistance? | |||
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| title = Right of Resistance? | |||
| date = March 14, 2005 | |||
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</ref> For example, in a speech given to the ], Khalidi said that “illing civilians is a war crime. It’s a violation of international law. They are not soldiers. They’re civilians, they’re unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that's different. That's resistance.”<ref name = "NYSunRoR" /><ref>Note: The has been edited, and has sections missing. Thus, it cannot be used for verification.</ref> The Sun editorial argued that by failing to distinguish between Palestinian combatants and noncombatants, Khalidi implies that all Palestinians have this right to resist, which it argued was incorrect under international law.<ref name = "NYSunRoR" /> In an interview discussing this editorial, Khalidi objected to this characterization as incorrect and taken out of the context of his statements on international law.<ref name = "NYSunRoR">{{cite web | |||
</ref> For example, in a speech given to the ], Khalidi said, "illing civilians is a war crime. It's a violation of international law. They are not soldiers. They're civilians, they're unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that's different. That's resistance."<ref name = "NYSunRoR" /><ref>Note: The has been edited, and has sections missing. Thus, it cannot be used for verification.</ref> The ''Sun'' editorial argued that by failing to distinguish between Palestinian combatants and noncombatants, Khalidi implies that all Palestinians have this ], which it claimed was incorrect under international law.<ref name = "NYSunRoR" /> In an interview discussing this editorial, Khalidi objected to this characterization as incorrect and taken out of the context of his statements on international law.<ref name = Scarborough>{{cite web | |||
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Khalidi has described discussions of Arab restitution for property confiscated from Jewish |
Khalidi has described discussions of Arab restitution for property confiscated from the ] from Middle Eastern and North African countries after the creation of Israel as "insidious", "because the advocates of Jewish refugees are not working to get those legitimate assets back but are in fact trying to cancel out the debt of Israel toward Palestinian refugees".<ref>{{cite web | ||
|url= http://www.forward.com/articles/13134/ | |url= http://www.forward.com/articles/13134/ | ||
|title= Study Estimates Assets of Arab |
|title= Study Estimates Assets of Arab Lands' Jews | ||
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Khalidi opposes the ] and has said that “we owe reparations to the Iraqi people.”<ref name = "IraqRepar">{{cite web | |||
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=== NYC teacher training program === | === NYC teacher training program === | ||
In 2005 Khalidi's participation in a New York City teacher training program was ended by the city's Schools Chancellor.<ref name = "PurnickNYT">{{cite |
In 2005 Khalidi's participation in a New York City teacher training program was ended by the city's Schools Chancellor.<ref name = "PurnickNYT">{{cite news | ||
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|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/nyregion/28matters.html | ||
|title= Some Limits on Speech in Classrooms | |title= Some Limits on Speech in Classrooms | ||
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|author-link=Joyce Purnick | |||
|date= February 28, 2005 | |date= February 28, 2005 | ||
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</ref> Chancellor ] issued a statement that "Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for ] teachers and he won't be participating in the future."<ref name = "NYSunBoE">{{cite news | ||
|url= http://www.nysun.com/article/9477 | |url= http://www.nysun.com/article/9477 | ||
|title= The Klein Example | |title= The Klein Example | ||
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</ref> Following the decision, Columbia University president ] spoke out on Khalidi's behalf, writing: "The department's decision to dismiss Professor Khalidi from the program was wrong and violates ] principles... The decision was based solely on his purported political views and was made without any consultation and apparently without any review of the facts."<ref name = "PurnickNYT" /> | ||
===2008 |
===2008 U.S. presidential campaign=== | ||
Consequent to publication by the ] of an article about Obama's attendance at a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, their relationship became |
Consequent to publication by the '']'' of an article about Obama's attendance at a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, their relationship became an issue in the campaign.<ref name = "LAT-041008">{{cite news | ||
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| url = https://www.latimes.com/la-na-obamamideast10-2008april10-story.html | ||
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| title = Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama | ||
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</ref> Some opponents of ] claimed that the relationship between Obama and Khalidi was evidence that Obama would not maintain a ] if elected.<ref name = "LAT-041008" /> Obama called his own commitment to Israel "unshakeable |
</ref> Some opponents of ] claimed that the relationship between Obama and Khalidi was evidence that Obama would not maintain a ] if elected.<ref name = "LAT-041008" /> When asked, Obama called his own commitment to Israel "unshakeable" and said he does not consult with Khalidi on foreign policy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/obama-on-the-de.html |title=Obama on the Defensive Before Fla. Jewish Voters |website=ABC news |date=May 22, 2008 |access-date=October 26, 2008 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080525070250/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/obama-on-the-de.html |archive-date=25 May 2008}}</ref> Opponents of Republican candidate ] pointed out that he had served as chairman of the ] (IRI) during the 1990s which provided grants worth $500,000 to the ], which was co-founded by Khalidi, for the purpose of polling the views of the Palestinian people.<ref> | ||
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html | *{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html |website=Huffington Post |title=McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama |first= Seth |last=Colter Walls |date=November 28, 2008 |access-date=28 May 2024}} | ||
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*{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-video_thuoct30,0,744362.story |title=McCain rips L.A. Times on Obama video |publisher=] (with assistance from the ] |date=October 30, 2008 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20081102044201/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-video_thuoct30,0,744362.story |archive-date=2 November 2008}} | ||
*http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/30/fact-check-does-group-mccain-chairs-have-link-to-columbia-professor-khalidi/?eref=politicalflipper | *{{cite web |url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/30/fact-check-does-group-mccain-chairs-have-link-to-columbia-professor-khalidi/?eref=politicalflipper |title=Fact check: Does group McCain chairs have link to Columbia professor Khalidi? |website=CNN |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20081204234353/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/30/fact-check-does-group-mccain-chairs-have-link-to-columbia-professor-khalidi/?eref=politicalflipper |archive-date=4 December 2008 |date=30 October 2008}} | ||
*A copy of the ] filing for the IRI was published online showing the grant and IRI members.{{cite |
*A copy of the ] filing for the IRI was published online showing the grant and IRI members.{{cite news | ||
|url=http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/IRIForm9901998.pdf | |url=http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/IRIForm9901998.pdf | ||
|title=A copy of the IRS filing is provided (see grant #5180 on p. 14 and p. 17 for McCain chairmanship in}}</ref> | |title=A copy of the IRS filing is provided (see grant #5180 on p. 14 and p. 17 for McCain chairmanship in | work=The Huffington Post}}</ref> | ||
=== Retirement from Columbia === | |||
==Bibliography== | |||
Rashidi announced his retirement from Columbia University in late June 2024, with the process being finalized on October 8 of the same year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lanard |first=Noah |title=The most prominent historian of Palestine on what the last year has meant |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/rashid-khalidi-interview-october-7-gaza-palestine-israel-biden-harris/ |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}</ref> In an interview with ''],'' Khalidi cited the university's crackdown on ], which he had vocally supported, and the transformation of the university into a "hedge fund-cum-real estate operation, with a minor sideline in education" as reasons for his retirement.<ref name="Iqbal">{{Cite web |last=Iqbal |first=Razia |title=Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/oct/08/rashid-khalidi-palestine-israel-scholar-columbia-university-retires |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> The announcement coincided with news that a throng of extremist settlers had stormed a family home on Silsila Road in Jerusalem, which had been Khalidi family property since the 18th century. After the death of a cousin, plans were made to transform it into an extension of the Khalidi library nearby, which holds over 1,200 manuscripts, some as old as the 11th century. Khalidi fears that Israeli courts will ignore their title and open the property to expropriation.<ref name="Iqbal" /> | |||
* ''The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood,'' Beacon Press, 2006. | |||
== Published works == | |||
* ''Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East'', Beacon Press, 2004. | |||
* ''British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906–19''". ''14''. Ithaca Press for St. Antony's College, 1980. | |||
* ''Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness'', Columbia University Press, 1997. | |||
* ''The Origins of Arab Nationalism ''(Co-editor), Columbia University Press, 1991. | |||
* ''Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War''. Columbia University Press, 1986. | |||
* ''Palestine and the Gulf'' (Co-editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982. | * ''Palestine and the Gulf'' (Co-editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982. | ||
* ''Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War''. Columbia University Press, 1986. | |||
* ''British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914''. Ithaca Press for St. Antony's College, 1980. | |||
* ''The Origins of Arab Nationalism ''(Co-editor), Columbia University Press, 1991. | |||
*, Columbia University Press, 1997. | |||
*{{cite book|editor= Eugene L. Rogan & Avi Shlaim |title= The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=h3EOJGiBBpQC |edition= 2nd |year= 2007 |orig-year= 1st ed. 2001 |publisher= ] |isbn= 978-0-521-69934-1 |chapter= The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=h3EOJGiBBpQC&pg=PR5 }} | |||
* ''Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East'', Beacon Press, 2004. | |||
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Palestinian-American historian (born 1948)
Rashid Khalidi | |
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رشيد إسماعيل خالدي | |
Khalidi in 2009 | |
Born | Rashid Ismail Khalidi (1948-11-18) November 18, 1948 (age 76) New York City, U.S. |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Histories of nationalism and colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East |
Spouse | Mona Khalidi |
Children | Ismail Khalidi |
Father | Ismail Khalidi |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History |
Institutions | |
Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد خالدي; born 18 November 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies from 2002 until 2020, when he became co-editor with Sherene Seikaly.
He has authored a number of books, including The Hundred Years' War on Palestine and Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness; has served as president of the Middle East Studies Association; and has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and the University of Chicago. Khalidi retired from Columbia University on October 8, 2024.
Family, education and career
Khalidi was born in New York City. Khalidi is the son of Ismail Khalidi and the nephew of Husayin al-Khalidi. He is the father of playwright Ismail Khalidi and activist/attorney Dima Khalidi. He grew up in New York City, where his father, a Saudi citizen of Palestinian origin who was born in Jerusalem, worked for the United Nations. Khalidi's mother, a Lebanese-American, was an interior decorator. Khalidi attended the United Nations International School.
In 1970, Khalidi received a B.A. from Yale University, where he was a member of the Wolf's Head Society. He then received a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. Between 1976 and 1983, Khalidi "was teaching full time as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept. at the American University of Beirut, published two books and several articles, and also was a research fellow at the independent Institute for Palestine Studies". He has also taught at the Lebanese University.
Khalidi became politically active in Beirut, where he resided through the 1982 Lebanon War. "I was deeply involved in politics in Beirut" in the 1970s, he said in an interview. Khalidi was cited in the media during this period, sometimes as an official with the Palestinian News Service, Wafa, or directly with the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Khalidi has said that he was not a PLO spokesman, and that he "often spoke to journalists in Beirut, who usually cited me without attribution as a well-informed Palestinian source. If some misidentified me at the time, I am not aware of it." Subsequently, sources disagreed as to the nature or existence of Khalidi's official relationship with the organization.
Returning to America, Khalidi spent two years teaching at Columbia University before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1987, where he spent eight years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago. During the Gulf War, while teaching at Chicago, Khalidi emerged "as one of the most influential commentators from within Middle Eastern Studies". In 2003 he joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he currently serves as the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies. He has also taught at Georgetown University.
Khalidi is married to Mona Khalidi, who served as assistant dean of student affairs and the assistant director of graduate studies of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, which describes itself as "a national organization of Jews, Christians and Muslims dedicated to dialogue, education and advocacy for peace based on the deepest teachings of the three religious traditions".
He is member of the Board of Sponsors of The Palestine–Israel Journal, a publication founded by Ziad Abuzayyad and Victor Cygielman, prominent Palestinian and Israeli journalists. He is founding trustee of The Center for Palestine Research and Studies. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In October 2010, Khalidi delivered the annual Edward Said memorial lecture at the Palestine Center in Washington.
Academic work
Khalidi's research covers primarily the history of the modern Middle East. He focuses on the countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, with an eye to the emergence of various national identities and the role played by external powers in their development. He also researches the impact of the media, the role of education in the construction of political identity, and the way regional narratives have developed over the past centuries. Michael C. Hudson, director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown, describes Khalidi as "preeminent in his field". He served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in 1994 and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies with Sherene Seikaly.
Much of Khalidi's scholarly work in the 1990s focused on the historical construction of nationalism in the Arab world. Drawing on the work of theorist Benedict Anderson who described nations as "imagined communities", he does not posit primordial national identities, but argues that these nations have legitimacy and rights. In Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997), he places the emergence of Palestinian national identity in the context of Ottoman and British colonialism as well as the early Zionist effort in the Levant. Palestinian Identity won the Middle East Studies Association's top honor, the Albert Hourani Book Award as best book of 1997.
His dating of the emergence of Palestinian nationalism to the early 20th century and his tracing of its contours provide a rejoinder to Israeli nationalist claims that Palestinians had no collective claims prior to the 1948 creation of Israel. His signature work, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press, 1997), argues that Arabs living in Palestine began to regard themselves as a distinct people decades before 1948, "and that the struggle against Zionism does not by itself sufficiently explain Palestinian nationalism".
In it, Khalidi also describes the late development, failings and internal divisions within the various elements of the Palestinian nationalist movement.
In Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004), Khalidi follows the history of Western involvement in the Middle East, and describes it as colonialist in nature. He finds hat this morally unacceptable and likely to backfire. Khalidi's book, Sowing Crisis, places the United States approach to the Middle East in historical context. He is sharply critical of U.S. policies during the Cold War, writing that Cold War policies "formulated to oppose the Soviets, consistently undermined democracy and exacerbated tensions in the Middle East".
Khalidi has written, "It may seem hard to believe today, but for decades the United States was in fact a major patron, indeed in some respects the major patron, of earlier incarnations" of radical, militant Islam, in order to use all possible resources in waging the Cold War. He add:
The Cold War was over, but its tragic sequels, its toxic debris, and its unexploded mines continued to cause great harm, in ways largely unrecognized in American discourse.
Historian and Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren has stated that "Khalidi is mainstream" only because "the stream itself has changed. The criteria for scholarship have become very political."
Palestinian Identity
In Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997) cited book. Khalidi argues that a Palestinian national consciousness emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century. He describes the Arab population as having "overlapping identities", with some or many expressing loyalties to villages, regions, a projected nation of Palestine, an alternative of inclusion in a Greater Syria, an Arab national project, as well as to Islam. Khalidi writes, "Local patriotism could not yet be described as nation-state nationalism."
Khalidi emphasized in his work that the Palestinian identity had been fundamentally fluid and changing, woven from multiple "narratives" due to individual and family experiences. He described the identity as organically developed due to the challenges of peasants forced from their homes due to Zionist immigrant pressure, but with Palestinian nationalism also being far more complex than merely an anti-Zionist reaction. Praise for his book appeared in the journal Foreign Affairs, with reviewer William B. Quandt viewing the work as "a major contribution to historical understanding of Palestinian nationalism."
Khalidi also documents active opposition by the Arab press to Zionism in the 1880s.
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
Main article: The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for StatehoodIn 2006, Khalidi published The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood which critically examines the Palestinian struggle for statehood during the British Mandate. It highlights both the failures of Palestinian leadership and British and Zionist roles in hindering statehood for Palestine.
Public life
Khalidi has written dozens of scholarly articles on Middle East history and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in many U.S. newspapers. He has also been a guest on radio and TV shows including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, Worldview, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, and Nightline, and has appeared on the BBC, the CBC, France Inter and the Voice of America. He served as president of the American Committee on Jerusalem, now known as the American Task Force on Palestine, and from 1991 to 1993 served as an official advisor to the joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation—later transitioning to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) delegation — during the Middle East peace conference in Madrid and the ensuing Israeli-Palestinian-American negotiations in Washington.
Views on Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Khalidi has written that the establishment of the state of Israel resulted in "the uprooting of the world's oldest and most secure Jewish communities, which had found in the Arab lands a tolerance that, albeit imperfect, was nonexistent in the often genocidal, Jew-hating Christian West." Regarding the proposed two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Khalidi has written that "the now universally applauded two-state solution faces the juggernaut of Israel's actions in the occupied territories over more than forty years, actions that have been expressly designed to make its realization in any meaningful form impossible." However, Khalidi also noted that "there are also flaws in the alternatives, grouped under the rubric of the one-state solution".
He supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Regarding American support for Israel, Khalidi stated in an interview, "every other single place on the face of the earth is in support of the Palestinians, yet all of them together aren't a hill of beans compared to the United States and Israel, because the United States and Israel can basically do anything they please. They are the world superpower, they are the regional superpower."
A New York Sun editorial criticized Khalidi for stating that there is a legal right under international law for Palestinians to resist what Khalidi considers to be Israeli occupation. For example, in a speech given to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Khalidi said, "illing civilians is a war crime. It's a violation of international law. They are not soldiers. They're civilians, they're unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that's different. That's resistance." The Sun editorial argued that by failing to distinguish between Palestinian combatants and noncombatants, Khalidi implies that all Palestinians have this right to resist, which it claimed was incorrect under international law. In an interview discussing this editorial, Khalidi objected to this characterization as incorrect and taken out of the context of his statements on international law.
Khalidi has described discussions of Arab restitution for property confiscated from the Jewish refugees from Middle Eastern and North African countries after the creation of Israel as "insidious", "because the advocates of Jewish refugees are not working to get those legitimate assets back but are in fact trying to cancel out the debt of Israel toward Palestinian refugees".
NYC teacher training program
In 2005 Khalidi's participation in a New York City teacher training program was ended by the city's Schools Chancellor. Chancellor Joel I. Klein issued a statement that "Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for Department of Education teachers and he won't be participating in the future." Following the decision, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger spoke out on Khalidi's behalf, writing: "The department's decision to dismiss Professor Khalidi from the program was wrong and violates First Amendment principles... The decision was based solely on his purported political views and was made without any consultation and apparently without any review of the facts."
2008 U.S. presidential campaign
Consequent to publication by the Los Angeles Times of an article about Obama's attendance at a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, their relationship became an issue in the campaign. Some opponents of Barack Obama claimed that the relationship between Obama and Khalidi was evidence that Obama would not maintain a pro-Israel foreign policy if elected. When asked, Obama called his own commitment to Israel "unshakeable" and said he does not consult with Khalidi on foreign policy. Opponents of Republican candidate John McCain pointed out that he had served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI) during the 1990s which provided grants worth $500,000 to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, which was co-founded by Khalidi, for the purpose of polling the views of the Palestinian people.
Retirement from Columbia
Rashidi announced his retirement from Columbia University in late June 2024, with the process being finalized on October 8 of the same year. In an interview with The Guardian, Khalidi cited the university's crackdown on pro-Palestinian student protests, which he had vocally supported, and the transformation of the university into a "hedge fund-cum-real estate operation, with a minor sideline in education" as reasons for his retirement. The announcement coincided with news that a throng of extremist settlers had stormed a family home on Silsila Road in Jerusalem, which had been Khalidi family property since the 18th century. After the death of a cousin, plans were made to transform it into an extension of the Khalidi library nearby, which holds over 1,200 manuscripts, some as old as the 11th century. Khalidi fears that Israeli courts will ignore their title and open the property to expropriation.
Published works
- British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906–19". 14. Ithaca Press for St. Antony's College, 1980.
- Palestine and the Gulf (Co-editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982.
- Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War. Columbia University Press, 1986.
- The Origins of Arab Nationalism (Co-editor), Columbia University Press, 1991.
- Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 1997.
- Eugene L. Rogan & Avi Shlaim, ed. (2007) . "The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure". The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-69934-1.
- Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2004.
- The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Beacon Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8070-0308-4.
- Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2009.
- Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2013. ISBN 978-08070-4475-9
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Metropolitan Books 2020 ISBN 978-1-627-79855-6
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External links
- Columbia University faculty page
- Profile on Rashid Khalidi at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Rashid Khalidi on the futility of negotiations, since a one-state solution already exists Haaretz, December 5, 2011
- Video: Rashid Khalidi – Palestine: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession (June 23, 2007)
- Review of Rhashid Khalidi's Resurrecting Empire, Western Footprints, and America's Path in the Middle East at Logosjournal.com
- Review of The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalid at the Institute for Middle East Understanding Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- Interview with the Author of The Iron Cage October 4, 2006 Alternative Radio. Fee charged.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Rashid Khalidi on Charlie Rose
- Rashid Khalidi at IMDb
- Rashid Khalidi collected news and commentary at Al Jazeera English
- Rashid Khalidi collected news and commentary at The Jerusalem Post
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