The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A Discussion

In this lecture, professor Rashid Khalidi will discuss his book, The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (2020). This book presents what has happened to Palestine as the consequence of a settler-colonial project, and the resistance it has prompted. The book also doubles as his own family’s history: Khalidi's father being sent by his uncle to deliver a message to King Abdullah I of Jordan to speak on behalf of Palestinians underlines the absence of diplomatic channels for Palestinians. Their voices were silenced. 

Rola El-Husseini, associate professor with the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, will moderate. 

Speaker

Rashid Khalidi  is the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He was editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, 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, for example, Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); and The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006).

This lecture is organised by the Critical Studies Research Node at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences in collaboration with Lund Academics for Palestine.