Rashid Khalidi
Author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
About the Author
Rashid Khalidi is the author of six books about the Middle East, including Palestinian Identity, Resurrecting Empire, The Iron Cage, and Sowing Crisis. His writing on Middle Eastern history and politics has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many show more journals. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York. show less
Image credit: 23 January 2009. Next Left Notes (Photo Credit: Thomas Good / NLN)
Works by Rashid Khalidi
Associated Works
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (1988) — Contributor — 188 copies
The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict (2011) — Contributor — 24 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1948
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Oxford University (DPhil|1974)
Yale College (AB|1970) - Occupations
- historian
university professor - Organizations
- Columbia University (Edward Said Professor Modern Arab Studies)
Council on Foreign Relations
Journal of Palestine Studies (editor)
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It is easy to allow emotion to blind you. However, when you read this book, you realise the genuine horror of the situation. Rashid Khalidi lived through some of the bombing, yet wrote a balanced, well-researched book. He does not spare the Palestinian authorities for their incompetence, nor does he spare the Arabic countries for their almost useless approach to the problem.
However, it becomes clear that the Americans have allowed the Israelis free hand. It is also clear that Israel owns American political strategy in the Middle-East.
Excellent companion books to this one are "The General's Son," Orientalism, "Culture and Colonialism." When you read the latter three books, you will understand the cultural context of the Palestinian problem, the genocide and apartheid.
Meanwhile, read this book. The scholarly, readable book does not conceal his pain.… (more)