拉希德·卡里迪

拉希德·伊斯梅尔·卡里迪（阿拉伯语：رشيد خالدي；英语：Rashid Ismail Khalidi，1948年—）是一位巴勒斯坦裔美国中东历史学家，也是哥伦比亚大学教授，主要研究现代的阿拉伯世界。他曾在黎巴嫩大学、贝鲁特美国大学、乔治城大学和芝加哥大学任教。 2002年至2020年期间，他是《巴勒斯坦研究杂志》的编辑。

卡里迪支持抵制、撤资、制裁运动，反对美国支持以色列。

生平

卡里迪生于纽约，他是侯赛因·法赫里·哈利迪的侄子。 其父亲是巴勒斯坦裔沙特阿拉伯公民 ，生于耶路撒冷， 曾在联合国工作。 卡里迪的母亲是黎巴嫩裔美国人，是一名室内设计师。

1970年，卡里迪获得耶鲁大学学士学位， 1974年获得牛津大学博士学位。

第五次中东战争期间，卡里迪居住在黎巴嫩贝鲁特。

返回美国后，卡里迪先在哥伦比亚大学执教两年，1987年来到芝加哥大学执教。2003年，他再次回到哥伦比亚大学执教。

卡里迪发表了数十篇有关中东历史和政治的学术文章，并在美国报纸上发表评论文章。

Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد خالدي; born November 18, 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies from 2002 until 2020, when he became co-editor with Sherene Seikaly.

Khalidi has written several books, including The Hundred Years' War on Palestine and Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness; has served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America; and has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and the University of Chicago. He retired from Columbia University on October 8, 2024.

Family, education and career

Khalidi was born in New York City. He is the son of Ismail Khalidi and nephew of Husayin al-Khalidi. 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 of Palestinian origin who was born in Jerusalem, worked for the United Nations. Khalidi's mother, a Lebanese-American, was an interior decorator. Khalidi attended the United Nations International School.

In 1970, Khalidi received a B.A. from Yale University, where he was a member of the Wolf's Head Society. He then received a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. Between 1976 and 1983, Khalidi "was teaching full time as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept. at the American University of Beirut, published two books and several articles, and also was a research fellow at the independent Institute for Palestine Studies". He has also taught at the Lebanese University.

Khalidi became politically active in Beirut, where he resided through the 1982 Lebanon War. "I was deeply involved in politics in Beirut" in the 1970s, he said in an interview. Khalidi was cited in the media during this period, sometimes as an official with the Palestinian News Service, Wafa, or directly with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Khalidi has said that he was not a PLO spokesman, and that he "often spoke to journalists in Beirut, who usually cited me without attribution as a well-informed Palestinian source. If some misidentified me at the time, I am not aware of it." Subsequently, sources disagreed on the nature or existence of Khalidi's relationship with the organization.

Returning to the US, Khalidi taught at Columbia University from 1985 to 1987. Then he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he spent eight years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago. During the Gulf War, while teaching at Chicago, Khalidi emerged "as one of the most influential commentators from within Middle Eastern Studies". In 2003, he rejoined the faculty of Columbia University, where he served as the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies. He has also taught at Georgetown University.

Khalidi is married to Mona Khalidi, who served as assistant dean of student affairs and the assistant director of graduate studies of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, which describes itself as "a national organization of Jews, Christians and Muslims dedicated to dialogue, education and advocacy for peace based on the deepest teachings of the three religious traditions".

Khalidi is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Palestine–Israel Journal, a publication founded by Ziad Abuzayyad and Victor Cygielman, prominent Palestinian and Israeli journalists. He is founding trustee of The Center for Palestine Research and Studies. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In October 2010, Khalidi delivered the annual Edward Said memorial lecture at the Palestine Center in Washington.