The Hundred-Year War for Palestine

Rashid Ismail Khalidi (b. 1948) is an American historian of Palestinian descent, a descendant of the first mayor of Jerusalem, who was president of the Association for the Study of the Middle East, and taught at Lebanese University, the American... University of Beirut, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. He is the author of several books on the history of the Middle East. The book “The Hundred-Year War for Palestine” covers the period from 1917 to 2017 - a turbulent time in the Middle East. In his research, Rashid Khalidi, in addition to traditional historical methods and sources, relies on the family archive, memories passed down in his family from generation to generation, and his own experience as a person who participated in negotiations between Palestinian groups and Israelis.