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Walid Ahmed Sameh Al-Khalidi was born in occupied Jerusalem on July 17, 1925. He studied primary school at the Ramallah Friends School in Ramallah, and secondary school at the Evangelical School in Jerusalem, from which he obtained his high school diploma. He obtained a BA in Greek and Roman History and Latin from the University of London in 1945, and a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford in Britain in 1951.
He was appointed as a teacher at Al-Ummah College in Jerusalem before 1945, and worked at the Arab Office in Jerusalem. He prepared the papers of the Palestinian case that were presented before the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry in 1946. He worked as a lecturer at Al-Maqasid College in Beirut, and as a lecturer at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University until 1956, when he resigned in protest against the tripartite aggression against Egypt. He then worked as a professor of political studies at the American University of Beirut until 1982, during which time he was promoted to the rank of professor. He then worked as a lecturer in history at Harvard University in the United States, a researcher at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, a lecturer at Princeton University in the United States, and an associate researcher at the Institute of Middle East Studies at Harvard University between 1982 and 1996.
Khalidi co-wrote Yasser Arafat's speech at the United Nations in 1974, and was among the first to publicly call for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, publishing an article in 1978 entitled An Independent and Sovereign Palestinian State. He was a member of the joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to the Middle East peace talks that began at the Madrid Conference in 1991.
Khalidi was active in scientific institutional work in service of the Palestinian cause. He founded, with Constantine Zureik and Burhan Dajani, the Institute for Palestine Studies in 1963 and was its general director until 2016. This institution is considered one of the first institutions that worked to provide the Palestinian, Arab and international library with literature on the Palestinian cause and its files. It was an incubator for researchers in Palestinian affairs, and its library is one of the largest libraries specializing in Palestine, its history and cause. He participated in the founding of the “Royal Scientific Society” in Jordan in 1968, and in the founding of the Cooperation Foundation in 1982, which worked in the field of cultural and social development for the Palestinian people in the diaspora and under occupation. He also participated in the founding of the Center for Islamic-Christian Understanding and the Friends of the Khalidi Library Association, both headquartered in the United States. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Khalidi has produced a number of manuscripts and written a number of studies and research papers on the Palestinian issue in Arabic and English. He is interested in the 1948 war, its political, social and cultural consequences, the destroyed villages, the refugee issue, the settlement process, and the city of Jerusalem. His published books include: Islam, the West and Jerusalem (1996), Lest We Forget the Palestinian Villages Destroyed by Israel during the 1948 War (Editor-in-Chief, 1997), Fifty Years since the Partition of Palestine (1998), Deir Yassin: Friday, April 9, 1948 (1999), Ownership of the US Embassy Site in Jerusalem (2000), The Khalidi Library in Jerusalem 1720-2001 (2002), The Diaspora: An Illustrated History of the Palestinian People 1876-1948 (2006), and The Partition of Palestine from the Great Revolt 1937-1939 to the Nakba 1937-1949. (2021).
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