TLRH | Fellow in focus with Fellow Professor Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University)

Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event
featuring Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Professor
Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), hosted by Professor Eve
Patten, Director Trinity Long Room Hub. About Rashid Khalidi Rashid
Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at
Columbia University, where he has served as chair of the History
Department and Director of the Middle East Institute, and was a
co-founder of the Center for Palestine Studies. He has taught at
the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut,
Georgetown University and the University of Chicago, where he
directed the Middle East Center and the Center for International
Studies. He received a B.A. in History from Yale University in 1970
and a D. Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University in 1974.
Khalidi is 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 1993.
He has received fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation,
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American
Research Center in Egypt, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and was recipient of a
Fulbright research award. He has written over a hundred scholarly
articles and book chapters on Middle Eastern history and politics,
and has published opinion pieces across an international media. As
a visiting research fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub , Professor
Khalidi has been exploring the parallels between Ireland and
Palestine and their colonial histories. In this fellow in focus
discussion, he reviews his career as a scholar and public
intellectual and discusses the progress of his current research.
Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/