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Dr walid khalidi, senior fellow at the center for middle eastern studies at. Professor walid khalidi is the chairman of the institute for palestine studies, usa, based in washington dc. He has been an outspoken critic of middle eastern politicians, including the palestinians, and his essay thinking the unthinkable set out a vision of an independent palestine that triggered a crucial debate among palestinians and led the palestinian national council in 1988 to adopt a policy of mutual recognition and selfdetermination for. He is a cofounder of the institute for palestine studies, established in beirut in december 1963 as an independent research and publishing center focusing on the palestine problem and the arabisraeli conflict. Even if the obama administration were to succeed in compelling israel to accept a twostate solution and stop building settlements in judea and samaria, this would not placate the arabs or ensure.
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Rashid khalidi, historian cousin and biographer of walid, suggested that khalidi has helped restore some of the palestine lost since. Hisham sharabi, nationalism and revolution in the arab world new york. Herman kahn was a futurist who worked for the rand corporation. Khalidi, walid benny morris and before their diaspora. In a landmark new project, the institute for palestine studies ips has made available online palestinian scholar walid khalidis immensely important work before their diaspora. This collection of essays addresses, from varying perspectives, issues that have preoccupied middle east scholars as well as twentiethcentury arab intellectuals. What the arabs are saying about israel gatestone institute. On 30 november 2009, professor walid khalidi, renowned palestinian historian and cofounder and general secretary of the.
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During the 1960s, he wrote the original thinking about the unthinkable. Confrontation in the middle east, center for international affairs, harvard university, isbn 0876740387. A sovereign palestinian state, council on foreign relations, 1978. Khalidi, walid on albert hourani, the arab office, and the angloamerican committee of 1946. He was born in 1829 in jerusalem and represented the city in the ottoman parliament of 1877. A sovereign palestinian state, foreign affairs, july 1978, pp.