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Palestine Reborn
A collection of speeches, articles, and key conference presentations from the past two decades by the leader of the joint Palestine-Jordanian delegation to the Mideast peace talks
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200 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1992
About the author
Walid Khalidi
32 books49 followersWalid Khalidi (Arabic: وليد خالدي; 16 July 1925 – 8 March 2026) was a Palestinian historian who wrote extensively on the Palestinian exodus.
He was a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center focusing on the Palestine problem and the Arab–Israeli conflict, and was its general secretary until 2016.
Khalidi's first teaching post was at Oxford, a position he resigned from in 1956 in protest at the British invasion of Suez. He was Professor of Political Studies at the American University of Beirut until 1982 and thereafter a research fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. He also taught at Princeton University.
He was a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center focusing on the Palestine problem and the Arab–Israeli conflict, and was its general secretary until 2016.
Khalidi's first teaching post was at Oxford, a position he resigned from in 1956 in protest at the British invasion of Suez. He was Professor of Political Studies at the American University of Beirut until 1982 and thereafter a research fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. He also taught at Princeton University.
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May 1, 2025
Khalidi provides a terrific collection of essays, including an updated version of a marvelous essay he contributed originally as the introduction for the edited vol., 'From Haven to Conquest.'
But even beyond that, Khalidi also offers terrific reference texting in how he delineates the intellectual tradition or debate around US-Israeli relations.
He also provides a forceful and useful vision for a future Palestinian State.
A key takeaway from his book is that a main reason why U.S. tactics towards peace in the M.E. (if one is to believe that the U.S. is earnest, but it is not) fail is because the U.S. does not recognize, or perhaps is not inclined to recognize, that that Palestine issue is at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. To deal with the broader conflict is to deal with the Palestine-Israeli Conflict. Instead, the U.S. is over the years attempted to isolate the Palestinians from its support system (i.e. the rest of the Arab world) but this tactic is unsustainable due to popular support for the Palestinian cause in the Arab consciousness (see also 'The Arab Revolution' by Historian Jean-Pierre Filiu).
But even beyond that, Khalidi also offers terrific reference texting in how he delineates the intellectual tradition or debate around US-Israeli relations.
He also provides a forceful and useful vision for a future Palestinian State.
A key takeaway from his book is that a main reason why U.S. tactics towards peace in the M.E. (if one is to believe that the U.S. is earnest, but it is not) fail is because the U.S. does not recognize, or perhaps is not inclined to recognize, that that Palestine issue is at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. To deal with the broader conflict is to deal with the Palestine-Israeli Conflict. Instead, the U.S. is over the years attempted to isolate the Palestinians from its support system (i.e. the rest of the Arab world) but this tactic is unsustainable due to popular support for the Palestinian cause in the Arab consciousness (see also 'The Arab Revolution' by Historian Jean-Pierre Filiu).
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