Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies
Director of the Middle East Institute
D. Phil. Oxford University 1974

Columbia University in the City of New York
1116 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
Office: 212-854-2584
Fax: 212-854-1413

rik2101@columbia.edu

Specialties

History of Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt; The Growth of Nation-State; Nationalism in the Arab World; Problems of Modern Middle East Historiography.

Biography

Rashid Khalidi's research and teaching encompassthe history of the modern Middle East, and in particular the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, with an emphasis on the emergenceof national identity, and the involvement of external powers in the region. He is particularly interested in the role of the press in the formation of new publics and new senses of community, in the place of education inthe construction of identity, and in the way narratives of self and other have interacted over the past two centuries in this conflicted region.

Books

• The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, Beacon Press, 2006.
  
  
• Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2004.
  
  
• Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 1997.
  
  
• The Origins of Arab Nationalism (Co-editor), Columbia University Press, 1991.
  
  
• Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War. Columbia University Press, 1986.
  
  
• Palestine and the Gulf (Co-editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982.
  
  
• British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914. Ithaca Press for St. Antony's College, 1980.