Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, where he also directs the Middle East Institute of the School of International and Public Affairs. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1970, and his PhD from Oxford four years later. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. Khalidi is the former President of the Middle East Studies Association, and the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.His recent works include 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; The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, 2006; and Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East, 2004. He is the co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf, 1982, and The Origins of Arab Nationalism, 1991, and has written over 110 scholarly articles.
Khalidi's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Vanguardia, The London Review of Books, and The Nation. He has been interviewed by Le Monde, Haaretz, Milliyet, al-Quds, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as and TV and radio including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, The News Hour, The Charlie Rose Show, GPS with Fareed Zakaria, Amanpour on CNN International, and Nightline, and on the BBC, Radio France Inter and France Culture, the CBC, al-Jazeera, al-‘Arabiyya, Russia Today, and the Voice of America.
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Khalidi's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Vanguardia, The London Review of Books, and The Nation. He has been interviewed by Le Monde, Haaretz, Milliyet, al-Quds, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as and TV and radio including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, The News Hour, The Charlie Rose Show, GPS with Fareed Zakaria, Amanpour on CNN International, and Nightline, and on the BBC, Radio France Inter and France Culture, the CBC, al-Jazeera, al-‘Arabiyya, Russia Today, and the Voice of America.