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Walid Khalidi
Born	1925 (age 82–83) Jerusalem, Palestine
Occupation	Historian

Walid Khalidi (Arabic: وليد خالدي‎, born in 1925 in Jerusalem) is an Oxford University educated Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is also the General Secretary and co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center; focusing exclusively on the Palestinian problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was born in Jerusalem and graduated with a B.A., from the University of London, in 1945 and then studied at University of Oxford gaining a M.Lit. in 1951.

Khalidi's first teaching post was at Oxford, he resigned this position in 1956 in protest at the British invasion of Suez. Walid Khalidi was Professor of Political Studies at the American University of Beirut until 1982 and thereafter a research fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs.¹ He has also taught at Princeton University.

Philip S. Khoury has described Walid Khalidi as a:-

..'caricature of the Oxford don that he once was: Articulate, erudite, and somewhat eccentric, which in America translates as "absent-minded."'²

Khalidi was co-founder of the Royal Scientific Society of Amman. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Position on the Palestine Question

Professor Walid Khalidi stated position on the Palestine question is for a two state solution³:-

"A Palestinian state in the occupied territories within the 1967 frontiers in peaceful coexistence alongside Israel is the only conceptual candidate for a historical compromise of this century-old conflict. Without it the conflict will remain an open-ended one."

"Toward Peace in the Holy Land," Foreign Affairs, Spring 1988

Also Professor Walid Khalidi is a Member of Joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to the Middle East peace talks as a representative of the Palestinian people. He holds no office in the PLO or any of its bodies.⁴

Awards

At the Palestinian Heritage Foundation 15th Anniversary presented Professor Walid Khalidi with an award in appreciation for his unwavering commitment to the Palestinian cause, the Arab-American community and the Arab nation.⁵

Notes

References

• Hirsch, Moshe and Housen-Couriel, Deborah (1995). Whither Jerusalem?: Proposals and Positions Concerning the Future of Jerusalem. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 9041100776

External links

• Institute for Palestinian Studies
• Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol 18 no. 1, (Aut. 88):pp 51-70. Erskine Childers, Walid Khalidi, and Jon Kimche 1961 Correspondence in The Spectator on “Why the Refugees Left” [Originally Appendix E of Khalidi, Walid, “Plan Dalet Revisited: Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine”.
• Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 134, no. 2 (Win. 05):pp 42-54. Khalidi, Walid “Why did the Palestinians Leave, Revisited”.
• Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 21, no. 1 (Aut. 91):pp 5-16. Khalidi, Walid "The Palestine Problem: An Overview".
• Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 27, no. 3 (Spring, 98):pp 60-105. Khalidi, Walid “Selected Documents on the 1948 Palestine War”.
• Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 35, no. 1 (Autumn 2005):pp 60-79. Khalidi, Walid “On Albert Hourani, the Arab Office, and the Anglo-American Committee of 1946”.
• Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 27, no. 1 (Aut. 1997):pp 5-21. Khalidi, Walid “Revisiting the 1947 UN Partition Resolution”.
• Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 22 no. 3 (Spring 93): 106-119. Khalidi, Walid “Benny Morris and Before their Diaspora”.
• Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 2 no. 2 (Win. 73): 3-32 Nasser's Memoirs of the First Palestine War Author(s): Gamal Abdul Nasser and Walid Khalidi

Further reading

• Khalidi, Walid (1959). Why Did the Palestinians Leave? Middle East Forum, 24, 21-24, (July 1959). Reprinted as 'Why Did the Palestinians Leave Revisited', 2005, Journal of Palestine Studies, XXXIV, No. 2, 42-54.
• Khalidi, Walid (1959). The Fall of Haifa. Middle East Forum, 35, 22-32, (December 1959).
• Khalidi, Walid (1961). Plan Dalet: The Zionist Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine. Middle East Forum, 37(9), 22-28, (November 1961).
• Khalidi, Walid (1974). Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Annotated Bibliography. Institute for Palestine Studies.
• Khalidi, Walid (1978). Thinking the unthinkable: A sovereign Palestinian State. Foreign Affairs, 56(4), 695-713.
• Khalidi, Walid (1981). Regiopolitics: Toward a U.S. Policy on the Palestine Problem. Foreign Affairs.
• Khalidi, Walid (1983). Conflict and Violence in Lebanon: Confrontation in the Middle East. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674160754
• Khalidi, Walid (1984). Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0887281443
• Khalidi, Walid (1985). A Palestinian Perspective on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Journal of Palestine Studies, 14(4) (Summer, 1985), pp. 35-48.
• Khalidi, Walid (1987). From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0887281559
• Khalidi, Walid (1988). Toward Peace in the Holy Land. Foreign Affairs.
• Khalidi, Walid (1989). At a Critical Juncture: The United States and the Palestinian People. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University.
• Khalidi, Walid (1991). The Gulf Crisis: Origins and Consequences. Journal of Palestine Studies, 20(2) (Winter, 1991), pp. 5-28.
• Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0887282245
• Khalidi, Walid (1992). Palestine Reborn. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 1850435634
• Khalidi, Walid (1993). Benny Morris and before Their Diaspora. Journal of Palestine Studies, 22(3) (Spring, 1993), pp. 106-119.
• Khalidi, Walid (1993). The Jewish-Ottoman Land Company: Herzl's Blueprint for the Colonization of Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies, 22(2) (Winter, 1993), pp. 30-47.
• Khalidi, Walid (1996). Islam, the West and Jerusalem. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies & Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University.
• Khalidi, Walid (1996). Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution. Journal of Palestine Studies, 27(1) (Autumn, 1997), pp. 5-21.
• Khalidi, Walid (1998). Selected Documents on the 1948 Palestine War. Journal of Palestine Studies. 27(3), 79.
• Khalidi, Walid (2000). The Ownership of the U.S. Embassy Site in Jerusalem. Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0887282776

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