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Palestine Past and Present with Rashid Khalidi

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Mon, Oct 14, 2024

6 PM – 7:30 PM (GMT+3)

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In commemoration of the first anniversary of the war in Gaza, Alternative Policy Solutions (APS) and the Middle East Studies Program (MESP) at the American University in Cairo are organizing a webinar entitled "Palestine Past and Present with Rashid Khalidi".

Renowned historian Rashid Khalidi’s most recent book “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine” came out in 2020, to much acclaim. Over the past twelve months, the war in Gaza added more urgency to a reading of this compelling account of the history of Palestine. In the words of Khalidi: “While much has changed since 7 October, the horrific events of the past six months are not unique, and do not stand outside history”.

Speaker:
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University. 

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Rabab El Mahdi
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, AUC

 

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Rashid Khalidi

Rashid Khalidi - Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, and the University of Chicago. He is co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and has served as President of the Middle East Studies Association. He has written or co-edited ten books, including The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, which has been the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness.



 


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Rabab El Mahdi ’96, ’98

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

The American University in Cairo

Rabab El Mahdi is an associate professor of political science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She earned her PhD from McGill University in Montreal, where she wrote her dissertation on the impact of neo-liberal economic reconstruction on changing patterns of state-civil society relations in Egypt and Bolivia. Her field of specialization is comparative political economy and development, with a focus on Latin America and the Middle East. El Mahdi’s research interests cover the areas of state-civil society relations, social movements and resistance, as well as the political economy of social policy. Before joining AUC, she worked for several developmental organizations, including Non-governmental organizations and United Nation agencies. Previously she taught at Yale University and was a recipient of a number of fellowships at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency. She is also the recipient of a number of research grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Currently, she leads AUC's research project, Alternative Policy Solutions (APS). She serves on the boards of a number of civil society and professional organizations, including the Arab Political Science Network (APSN).

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