Phone A Friend: Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Professor Khalidi received his BA from Yale in 1970, and Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford in 1974. He's co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and was president of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli Peace negotiations from October, 1991 until June of 1993. He's the author of eight books, including most recently, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. His research inspired a significant amount of the work in our series on Palestine, and it's a privilege to welcome him today.
Resources
Rashid Khalidi: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
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Jean-Pierre Filiu: Gaza: A History
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes when we talk, we don't know what the fuck, so we have to call and ask, so we have to call and ask a friend. |
| 0:18.0 | I want to know the things you know |
| 0:22.8 | It'll make a better show |
| 0:26.6 | You're the one on whom we all depend Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. |
| 0:48.4 | Professor Khalidi received his BA from Yale in 1970 and Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford in 1974. |
| 0:55.0 | He's co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and was president of the Middle East Studies Association, |
| 1:01.0 | and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations |
| 1:07.0 | from October 1991 until June 1993. |
| 1:16.3 | He's the author of eight books, including most recently, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine. |
| 1:20.6 | His research inspired a significant amount of the work in our series on Palestine, |
| 1:23.5 | and it's a privilege to welcome him to the show today. |
| 1:29.0 | Professor Khalidi, thank you so much for your time today in what is certainly an emotional and strenuous time. |
| 1:30.0 | Thank you for being part of the show. |
| 1:31.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:32.0 | So our audience has heard us reference a great deal of your perspective from both |
| 1:37.3 | lectures and the Hundred Years' War on Palestine, which I found to be an invaluable resource |
| 1:41.2 | in putting our series together. |
| 1:43.4 | And one of the things that I appreciated most was your willingness to include personal family |
| 1:48.1 | history, which I think helped really connect with the reader, most notably the archival |
| 1:53.1 | information that you uncovered and unearthed from your great, great, great uncle, Yusufthia. |
| 1:58.4 | So if it's okay, I'd like to begin actually on a personal note to ask you |
| 2:02.0 | what it was like going through those archives to connect with history in such a personal way. |
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