Education
D.Phil. – Oxford University 1974
B.A. – Yale University 1970

Current Departmental Service
Department Vice-Chair, Personnel Committee Chair, Space Committee Vice-Chair

Interests and Research
Rashid Khalidi received his BA from Yale in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1974.  He is 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 1993. He is author of: Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991).

Affiliations
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Member, Conseil Scientifique, Ramses2, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence
Member, Conseil Scientifique, Institut Méditérranean d’Etudes et Recherches Avancés, Marseille
Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Member, Board of Trustees, al-Quds University, Jerusalem
Member, Advisory Board, Bruno Kreisky Forum, Vienna
Member, Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.
Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East.

Courses
Modern Middle Eastern History
The United States, the Middle East and the Cold War
Islamic Movements in the Modern Middle East
Senior Seminar: Orientalism and the Historiography of the Other
Seminar: Modern History of Palestine
Seminar: Nationalism in the Arab World

Arab American National Museum Book Award for The Iron Cage
Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani Book Award, for Resurrecting Empire
Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani Book Award for Palestinian Identity
Lenfest Teaching Award

Books
British Policy towards Syria and Palestine 1906-1914: The Antecedents of the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Agreements and the Balfour Declaration (1980)
Palestine and the Gulf: Proceedings of an International Seminar (co-editor, 1982)
Under Siege: P.L.O. Decision-making during the 1982 War (1985)
The Origins of Arab Nationalism (co-editor, 1991)
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997)
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004)
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006)
Sowing Crisis: American Hegemony and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009)
Recent Scholarly Articles
“The Future of Arab Jerusalem.” In Arab Nation, Arab Nationalism, 19-40. Edited by Derek Hopwood. Vol. 2, London: MacMillans/St. Antony’s College, 2000.
“Intellectual Life in Late Ottoman Jerusalem.”  In Ottoman Jerusalem: The Living City, 1517-1917, 221-228. Edited by Sylvia Auld and Robert Hillenbrand. London and Jerusalem: British School of Archaeology and World of Islam Festival Trust, 2000.
“The Centrality of Jerusalem to an End of Conflict Agreement.” Journal of Palestine Studies, 30, 3, no. 119 (Spring 2001): 82-87.
“The Palestinians and 1948: The Underlying Causes of Failure.” In The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, 12-36. Edited by Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
“The Revolutionary Year of 1958 in the Arab World.” In The Revolutionary Middle East in 1958, 181-208. Edited by Wm. Roger Louis. Washington, D. C. and London: Woodrow Wilson Press and I.B. Tauris, 2002.
“Arab Society in Mandatory Palestine: The Half-Full Glass?” In Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, 229-246. Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem and Ursula Wokök, eds. Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 2002.
"Toward a Clear Palestinian Strategy." Journal of Palestine Studies, 31, 4, no. 124 (Summer 2002): 5-12.
“Concluding Remarks.” In The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective, 695-704. Edited by Nadine Méouchi and Peter Sluglett. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
“The Past and Future of Democracy in the Middle East.” Macalester International, 14 (Spring 2004), 3-17.
“Israël-Palestine: d’Oslo à la guerre contre le terrorisme: Entretien avec Rashid Khalidi.” Politique Etrangère, 4/2004 (Winter 2004-2005): 729-741.
“Reform and Democracy in the Arab World: Historical Insights.” Global Agenda, 3, January 2005: 238-241.
“After Arafat.” London Review of Books, 27, 3, (3 February 2005): 16-18.
“Resurrecting Empire.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East, 25, 1, 2005, 1-6.
“A Research Agenda for Writing the History of Jerusalem.” In Pilgrims, Lepers & Stuffed Cabbage: Essays on Jerusalem’s Cultural History, 12-27. Edited by Issam Nassar and Salim Tamari. Jerusalem: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 2005
“The Place of the Middle East in the International System: From Vienna to Washington, 1815-2005.” The Middle East: Challenge and Response. Bir Zeit: Bir Zeit University, 2005, 5-16.
“Resurrecting Empire: The End of Year II of the Occupation of Iraq.” 2005 Farhat J. Ziadeh Diistinguished Lecture in Arabic and Islamic Studies. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, Seattle, 2005, 10 pp.
“Iraq and American Empire.” New Political Science, 28, 1, March 2006, 125-135.
“Iraq and American Empire: Can Arab-Americans Influence Middle East Policy?” Emirates Lecture Series, No. 68. Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2007, 32 pp.
“International Law and Legitimacy and the Palestine Question.” Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 30, 2 (Winter 2007) 173-180.
“The United States and Palestine.” In The Future of Palestine and Israel: From Colonial Roots to Post-colonial Realities, 272-298.  Edited by Aslam Farouk-Alli. Midrand, South Africa: Institute for Global Dialogue & Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2007.
“Foreward.” In The War on Lebanon: A Reader, ix-xxiii. Edited by Nubar Hovsepian. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch, 2008.