Rashid Khalidi

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Rashid Khalidi speaking at Brooklyn Law School , January 2009

Rashid Ismail Khalidi ( Arabic رشيد خالدي), (* 1948 in New York ) is an American - Palestinian historian of the Middle East , Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and Director of the Middle East Institute located there.

Life

He is considered a confidante of US President Barack Obama . The good relationship between the two gave rise to speculation during the election campaign about a deterioration in relations with Israel.

Khalidi has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009 .

Publications

  • British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906–1914. Ithaca Press for St. Antony's College, 1980.
  • Palestine and the Gulf. (Associate Editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982.
  • Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War. Columbia University Press, 1986.
  • The Origins of Arab Nationalism. (Associate Editor), Columbia University Press, 1991.
  • Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. Columbia University Press, 1997.
  • Eugene L. Rogan , Avi Shlaim (eds.): The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 . 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-69934-1 , The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure, pp. 12 ff . ( books.google.de - first edition: 2001).
  • 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 0-8070-0308-5 ( books.google.de - limited preview).
  • Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. Beacon Press, 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Wallsten: Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama . In: Los Angeles Times , April 10, 2008. Retrieved December 2, 2008. 
personal data
SURNAME Khalidi, Rashid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khalidi, Rashid Ismail (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Palestinian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH new York