Walid Khalidi
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Walid Khalidi is an Oxford University-educated Palestinian
historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is General Secretary and co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies
, established in Beirut
in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center focusing on the Palestine
problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Khalidi's first teaching post was at Oxford
, a position he resigned in 1956 in protest at the British invasion of Suez
. He was Professor of Political Studies at the American University of Beirut
until 1982 and thereafter a research fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs
. He has also taught at Princeton University
.
Khalidi was co-founder of the Royal Scientific Society of Amman
. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
.
in 1945, then studied at the University of Oxford
, gaining an M.Litt. in 1951. Under his guidance the Institute of Palestine Studies produced a long series of monographs in English and Arabic and several important translations of Hebrew texts into Arabic: 'The History of the Haganah
', Ben Gurion
and Shertok's diaries—texts that still await translation into English. He has also produced ground-breaking work on the fall of Haifa
and Deir Yassin
. His best known works are Before their diaspora, a photographic essay on Palestinian society prior to 1948 and All that remains, the encyclopedic collection of village histories which he edited.
From "Foreign Affairs":
A Palestinian state in the occupied territories within the 1967 frontiers in peaceful coexistence alongside Israel is the only conceptual candidate for a historical compromise of this century-old conflict. Without it the conflict will remain an open-ended one.
Khalidi is a Palestinian representative to the Joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to the Middle East peace talks. He holds no office in the PLO or any of its bodies.
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is General Secretary and co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies
Institute for Palestine Studies
The Institute for Palestine Studies is the oldest independent non-profit, public service, research institute in the Arab world, was established and incorporated in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963 and has since served as a model for other such institutes in the region...
, established in Beirut
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center focusing on the Palestine
Palestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Khalidi's first teaching post was at Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, a position he resigned in 1956 in protest at the British invasion of Suez
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,...
. He was Professor of Political Studies at the American University of Beirut
American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...
until 1982 and thereafter a research fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. He has also taught at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
.
Khalidi was co-founder of the Royal Scientific Society of Amman
Royal Scientific Society
The Royal Scientific Society is the largest applied research institution, consultancy, and technical support service provider in Jordan and is a regional leader in the fields of science & technology....
. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
.
Career
Khalidi graduated with a B.A. from the University of LondonUniversity of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
in 1945, then studied at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, gaining an M.Litt. in 1951. Under his guidance the Institute of Palestine Studies produced a long series of monographs in English and Arabic and several important translations of Hebrew texts into Arabic: 'The History of the Haganah
Haganah
Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.- Origins :...
', Ben Gurion
Ben Gurion
Ben Gurion can refer to the following persons:* Nicodemus ben Gurion, a Biblical figure, probably a rich Jewish member of the Sanhedrin that felt sympathetic to Jesus Christ...
and Shertok's diaries—texts that still await translation into English. He has also produced ground-breaking work on the fall of Haifa
Haifa
Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
and Deir Yassin
Deir Yassin
Deir Yassin was a Palestinian Arab village of around 600 people near Jerusalem. It had declared its neutrality during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine between Arabs and Jews...
. His best known works are Before their diaspora, a photographic essay on Palestinian society prior to 1948 and All that remains, the encyclopedic collection of village histories which he edited.
Position on the Palestine question
Khalidi's stated position on the Palestine question is for a two-state solution [direct quote needed].From "Foreign Affairs":
A Palestinian state in the occupied territories within the 1967 frontiers in peaceful coexistence alongside Israel is the only conceptual candidate for a historical compromise of this century-old conflict. Without it the conflict will remain an open-ended one.
Khalidi is a Palestinian representative to the Joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to the Middle East peace talks. He holds no office in the PLO or any of its bodies.
Awards
At the Palestinian Heritage Foundation's 15th-Anniversary banquet, Khalidi was presented with an award for his commitment to the Palestinian cause, the Arab-American community, and the Arab nation.Published works
- (1959) Why Did the Palestinians Leave? Middle East Forum, 24, 21-24, (July 1959). Reprinted as 'Why Did the Palestinians Leave Revisited', 2005, Journal of Palestine Studies, XXXIV, No. 2, 42-54.
- (1959) The Fall of Haifa. Middle East Forum, 35, 22-32, (December 1959).
- (1961) Plan Dalet: The Zionist Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine. Middle East Forum, 37(9), 22-28, (November 1961).
- (1974) Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Annotated Bibliography. Institute for Palestine Studies.
- (1978) Thinking the unthinkable: A sovereign Palestinian State. Foreign Affairs, 56(4), 695-713.
- (1981) Regiopolitics: Toward a U.S. Policy on the Palestine Problem. Foreign Affairs.
- (1983) Conflict and Violence in Lebanon: Confrontation in the Middle East. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674160754
- (1984) Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0887281443
- (1985) A Palestinian Perspective on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Journal of Palestine Studies, 14(4) (Summer, 1985), pp. 35-48.
- (1987) From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948.. Institute of Palestine Studies, Washington DC.
- (1988) Toward Peace in the Holy Land. Foreign Affairs
- (1989) At a Critical Juncture: The United States and the Palestinian People. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University.
- (1991) The Gulf Crisis: Origins and Consequences. Journal of Palestine Studies, 20(2) (Winter, 1991), pp. 5-28.
- (1992) All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0887282245
- (1992) Palestine Reborn. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 1850435634
- (1993) Benny Morris and before Their Diaspora. Journal of Palestine Studies, 22(3) (Spring, 1993), pp. 106-119.
- (1993) The Jewish-Ottoman Land Company: Herzl's Blueprint for the Colonization of Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies, 22(2) (Winter, 1993), pp. 30-47.
- (1996) Islam, the West and Jerusalem. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies & Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University.
- (1996) Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution. Journal of Palestine Studies, 27(1) (Autumn, 1997), pp. 5-21.
- (1998) Khamsuna 'aman a'la taqsim Filastin. Fifty years since the Partition of Palestine (1947 - 1997), Dar al-Nahar, Beirut. (Arabic).
- (1998) Selected Documents on the 1948 Palestine War. Journal of Palestine Studies. 27(3), 79.
- (1999) Dayr Yasin: al-Jum'a, 9/4/1948. Dayr Yasin: Friday, 9 April 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies. Beirut. (Arabic).
- (2000) The Ownership of the U.S. Embassy Site in Jerusalem. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0887282776
- (2005) On Albert Hourani, the Arab Office, and the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry 1946, Journal of Palestine Studies 35, no.1 (autumn 2005): 60-79
External links
- Institute for Palestinian Studies
- Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol 18 no. 1, (Aut. 88):pp 51-70. Erskine Childers, Walid Khalidi, and Jon Kimche 1961 Correspondence in The Spectator on “Why the Refugees Left” [Originally Appendix E of Khalidi, Walid, “Plan Dalet Revisited: Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine”.
- Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 134, no. 2 (Win. 05):pp 42-54. Khalidi, Walid “Why did the Palestinians Leave, Revisited”.
- Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 21, no. 1 (Aut. 91):pp 5-16. Khalidi, Walid "The Palestine Problem: An Overview".
- Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 27, no. 3 (Spring, 98):pp 60-105. Khalidi, Walid “Selected Documents on the 1948 Palestine War”.
- Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 35, no. 1 (Autumn 2005):pp 60-79. Khalidi, Walid “On Albert Hourani, the Arab Office, and the Anglo-American Committee of 1946”.
- Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 27, no. 1 (Aut. 1997):pp 5-21. Khalidi, Walid “Revisiting the 1947 UN Partition Resolution”.
- Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 22 no. 3 (Spring 93): 106-119. Khalidi, Walid “Benny Morris and Before their Diaspora”.
- Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 2 no. 2 (Win. 73): 3-32 Nasser's Memoirs of the First Palestine War Author(s): Gamal Abdul Nasser and Walid Khalidi