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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents
Rashid Khalidi
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.
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