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Rashid Khalidi

رشيد خالدي

Historian and professor

Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and one of the most influential historians of modern Palestine.

historyColumbia UniversityhistoriographyNakba

Rashid Khalidi was born in New York City in 1948 to a distinguished Palestinian family from Jerusalem. He studied at Yale and Oxford, taught at the American University of Beirut and the University of Chicago, and in 2003 became the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, where he is now professor emeritus. He served as president of the Middle East Studies Association and as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid and Washington negotiations between 1991 and 1993.

His scholarship traces how Palestinian national consciousness formed, and how outside powers shaped — and often foreclosed — Palestinian political life. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (2020) brought his argument to a wide readership, framing the conflict as a century-long colonial war waged against a native population. He also edits the Journal of Palestine Studies.

Key works

  • Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997)
  • The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006)
  • Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013)
  • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (2020)

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Further reading

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sipa.columbia.edu — rashid khalidi(opens in a new tab)https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/rashid-khalidi

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  • Palestinians did not exist before 1948 — they are an invented peopleArguments

    Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: …Rashid Khalidi's Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press, 1997) traces Palestinian identity to well before the First World War, rooted in attachment to a…

  • Settler ColonialismGlossary

    Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: The framework has since become central to Palestinian historiography, most prominently in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, which reads the period from the Balfour Declaration onward as a settler-colonial war rather than a communal conflict between two symmetrical nationalisms.

  • The Khalidi familyالخالديFamilies

    Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Walid Khalidi (1925–2026), son of Ahmad Samih, co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut in 1963 and wrote the standard photographic and village-by-village records of the Nakba; his half-brother Tarif is a historian at the American University of Beirut; their cousin Rashid Khalidi (b.

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“Rashid Khalidi.” Figures, FALASTEEN.AI. Accessed 22 August 2026. https://falasteen.ai/figures/rashid-khalidi.
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“Rashid Khalidi.” Figures, FALASTEEN.AI, 2026, https://falasteen.ai/figures/rashid-khalidi. Accessed 22 August 2026.
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@misc{falasteen-rashid-khalidi, title = {Rashid Khalidi}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/figures/rashid-khalidi}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }