Walid Khalidi
Palestinian historian (1925-2026) · Lebanon · On the map · Writers · Died at 100
Walid Khalidi was a Palestinian historian who wrote extensively on the Palestinian exodus.
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He co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) 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.
