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The Center for MIddle Eastern Studies presents
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University
Moderated by Rosie Bsheer, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of History, Harvard University
**Open to Harvard ID holders only**
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies invites you to a conversation with Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, about the ongoing Nakba unfolding in Gaza. The recentering of Palestinians reverses decades of global and regional Middle East policy and discourse that have attempted to sideline Palestinian national aspirations and turn a blind eye to the growing plight of life under Israeli occupation. Western powers have betrayed a fallback to a dehumanizing, racialized discourse as they continue to thwart ceasefire attempts and provide material and diplomatic fodder to the Israeli military. The scale of violence has mobilized millions in global protests, but spaces of knowledge creation and exchange battle a well-coordinated campaign of misinformation, censorship, and intimidation that is having a chilling effect on academic freedom, at a time when critical scholarly exchange is sorely needed.
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, with Sherene Seikaly, 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).
Contact: Liz Flanagan