#  Gaza: A Colonial War? 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **January 30, 2024** 

 06:00PM - 08:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Science Center Hall B, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **The Center for Middle Eastern Studies** presents

 **Rashid Khalidi**

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Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University Moderated by: **Kirsten Weld**, Professor of History, Harvard University

 \*\*Open to Harvard ID holders only\*\*

 Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and one of the leading historians of modern Palestine. He is co-editor of the *Journal of Palestine Studies*, was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. Khalidi is the author of over 10 books, including *The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017* (2020); *Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East* (2013); *Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East* (2009); and *Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness* (1996).

 Kirsten Weld is a professor of history at Harvard University and the author of the award-winning *Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala*. Her work centers struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion in the twentieth-century Americas, with a particular focus on the politics of historical knowledge production. She is currently writing a book about the impact and afterlives of the Spanish Civil War in Latin America.

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ History ](/research-field/history)
- [ Israel ](/research-region/israel)
- [ Palestinian Territories ](/research-region/palestinian-territories)
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