14 Facts About Walid Khalidi

Walid Khalidi is a Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus.

Walid Khalidi 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.

Walid Khalidi is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Walid Khalidi has been influential in scholarship, institutional development and diplomacy.

Walid Khalidi's step mother, Anbara Salam Khalidi, was a Lebanese feminist, translator and author, who significantly contributed to the emancipation of Arab women.

Walid Khalidi's half-brothers are the historian Tarif Khalidi and biochemist Usama al-Khalidi.

Walid Khalidi then taught at the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford, until he resigned, after the trilateral British, French and Israeli assault on Egypt in 1956, to take up teaching at the American University of Beirut.

Walid Khalidi has produced ground-breaking work on the fall of Haifa and Deir Yassin.

Walid Khalidi's best known works are Before Their Diaspora, a photographic essay on Palestinian society prior to 1948 and All That Remains, the encyclopedic collection of village histories which he edited.

Walid Khalidi became a senior research associate at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard in 1982.

Walid Khalidi was critical of the Palestinian involvement in the Lebanese Civil War, recalling an argument with Yasser Arafat in which he told the Palestinian leader that the PLO "had no business" taking sides in the conflict.

Walid Khalidi's stated position on the Palestine question is for a two-state solution.

Walid Khalidi holds no office in the Palestine Liberation Organization or any of its bodies.

At the Palestinian Heritage Foundation's 15th Anniversary banquet, Walid Khalidi was presented with an award for his commitment to the Palestinian cause, the Arab-American community, and the Arab nation.