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Walid Khalidi (1925-2026)Entry/Object ID
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Walid Khalidi (1925-2026) is a historian who specializes in Nakba-related Palestinian history. Born in Jerusalem, he was educated in England and later taught at Oxford and the American University in Beirut. In 1963 he co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon. The Institute later opened an office in Washington, DC and is the only institute in the world solely concerned with analyzing and documenting Palestinian affairs and the Arab–Israeli conflict.
Khalidi's works on Palestinian life in the 20th century, including "Before Their Diaspora" (1984), and "All That Remains" (1992), are renowned as authoritative works on those subjects.Collection
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Walid Khalidi (1925) is a Palestinian historian who specializes on the Palestinian exodus. Born in jerusalem, he went on to study at the University of London (B.A., 1945) and the University of Oxford (M.Litt. 1951). He taught at the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford until transferring to a teaching position at the American University of Beirut. In 1963 he co-founded Beirut's Institute for Palestine Studies, the oldest independent non-profit research institute in any Arab country. His work Before Their Diaspora (1984) utilizes nearly 500 photos to chronologize and memorialize five historical periods of Palestinian life prior to 1948. He is also the author of All That Remains, the authoritative reference detailing the more than 400 villages depopulated or destroyed in 1948. His research on the losses of Haifa and Deir Yassin is considered groundbreaking. Khalidi has served as a fellow at Princeton and Harvard University, prior to his retirement in 1977 He contributed to the founding of Amman's Royal Scientific Society (1966) and Beirut's Center for Arab Unity Studies (1975). Further, he is a founding member of the Palestinian Welfare Association (1982) and the Center for Christian and Muslim Understanding at Georgetown University (1993). He is currently chairman of the Board of Trustees of Jerusalem's Friends of the Khalidi Library, which is home to the largest Palestinian collection of Islamic manuscripts. Khalidi is the recipient of the Palestinian Heritage Foundation's award, the Order of Al Istiqlal from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the Jerusalem Prize (1998) from the Palestinian National Authority.