Rashid Khalidi

Professor Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. Khalidi is a scholar of Arab nationalism, Palestinian history, modern Middle Eastern history, the Cold War in relation to the Middle East, and Islamic movements. After graduating from Yale University with his B.A. and Oxford University with his D.Phil., Khalidi became a professor of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia, Chicago, and Georgetown, while also serving as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Board of Trustees at al-Quds University, Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, and Editorial Board of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East. He was also an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. In addition to being editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, Khalidi has authored, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East (2009), The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006), Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004), and Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997), which has led to awards such as the Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani Book Award, MEMO Palestine Book Award, Lionel Trilling Book Award, and Arab American National Museum Book Award.