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The book has been described as providing a vital perspective on Palestinian attempts to achieve independence and statehood. [1]In a review of Khalidi's The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, for Middle East Policy, Philip Wilcox praised the book calling it "Khalidi's brilliant inquiry into why Palestinians have failed to win a state of their own."
Throughout the book, Khalidi argues that the United States, which claims to be an impartial broker of peace, is in fact heavily biased toward Israel. He uses the term "Brokers of Deceit" to describe how American officials have used doublespeak and obfuscation to manage a rhetorical commitment to peace while actually consolidating the status quo ...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 is a 2020 book by Rashid Khalidi, in which the author describes the Zionist claim to Palestine in the century spanning 1917–2017 as late settler colonialism and an instrument of British and then later American imperialism, [1] doing so by focusing on a series of six major episodes the author ...
By Rashid Khalidi “This is a brave, brilliant, magisterial and highly important book,” Avi Shlaim , author of "The Iron Wall" and other works of history, notes in an endorsement of the book.
Khalidi is the son of Ismail Khalidi and the nephew of Husayin al-Khalidi. [6] He is the father of playwright Ismail Khalidi and activist/attorney Dima Khalidi. He grew up in New York City, where his father, a Saudi citizen [ 6 ] of Palestinian origin who was born in Jerusalem , [ 7 ] worked for the United Nations .
[1] [2] The book also contains hundreds of photographs, several maps, and appendices. [2] The book also traces the Hebraization of Palestinian place names. [1] As Ann M. Lesch notes, "In the Jerusalem district alone, twenty per cent of the 38 destroyed villages now have Hebrew names: Kasla became Kesalon; Sar'a is Tzor'a; Saris is Shoresh; Suba ...
Besides having been a public intellectual, Edward Said was an accomplished pianist, worked as the music critic for The Nation magazine, and wrote four books about music: Musical Elaborations (1991); Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society (2002), with Daniel Barenboim as co-author; On Late Style: Music and Literature Against ...
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question is a collection of essays, co-edited by Palestinian scholar and advocate Edward Said and journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, published by Verso Books in 1988.