Rashid Ismail Khalidi
Contributor
Website : Rashid Khalidi at Columbia University
Director of the Middle East Institute, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University. Author of Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness and The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Palestine, area of the eastern Mediterranean region, comprising parts of modern Israel and the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip (along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and the West Bank (west of the Jordan River). The term Palestine has been associated variously and sometimes…
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Publications (2)
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
Khalidi Critically Assesses The Narratives That Make Up Palestinian History And Identity And Examines The Ways In Which The Palestinian National Consciousness Has Come Full Circle. Introduction -- Contrasting Narratives Of Palestinian Identity -- Cultural Life And Identity In Late Ottoman Palestine : The Place Of Jerusalem -- Competing And Overlapping Loyalties In Ottoman Jerusalem -- Elements Of Identity I : Peasant Resistance To Zionist Settlement -- Elements Of Identity Ii : The Debate On Zionism...
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The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
A timely and compelling examination of the Palestinian dilemma, named one of the 100 best books of the year by Publishers Weekly In Resurrecting Empire, Rashid Khalidi dissected the failures of colonial policy over the entire span of the modern history of the Middle East, predicted the meltdown in Iraq that we are now witnessing with increasing horror, and offered viable alternatives for achieving peace in the region. His newest book, The Iron Cage, hones in on Palestinian politics and history....
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