Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Professor of History, and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, will be the Mary Flexner Lecturer this Fall. Professor Khalidi’s scholarly interests include the history of Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt; the growth of the nation-state; nationalism in the Arab world; problems of Modern Middle East Historiography. See below for the outlines of Professor Khalidi's academic career and a list of his major publications. Copies of Professor Khalidi's books are available for purchase in the bookshop and for borrowing in Canaday library. His lectures will be on The United States, the Middle East, and the Cold War. October 24: Rethinking the Cold War in the Middle East October 31: Oil, Strategy and the Cold War in the Middle East November 7: The Middle East in the Cold War and Afterwards Each of the lectures will take place in the Great Hall, Thomas, beginning at 8:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served after the lectures.

The members of the planning committee--Peter Magee,Tamara Neuman, Marc Ross, Suzy Spain, and Sharon Ullman, all members of MESI, the Middle East Studies Initiative--have arranged for a series of pre-lecture discussions and post lecture conversations to which members of the faculty and staff are invited. In addition to the events which they have developed, they encourage faculty members to think about having Professor Khalidi visit their classes and/or meet with their students for discussions.

These are the scheduled events,thus far:

Pre-lecture discussions for faculty and staff
Wednesday, October 3, 4:15-6:00 pm Dalton 212 A	Rashid Khalidi’s writings. with Tamara Neuman, Debi Harrold and Marc Ross presiding	Suggested readings: from Resurrecting Empire, Chapter 1: The Legacy of the Western Encounter with the Middle East and its notes. from Palestinian Identity, Chapter 8: The "Disappearance" and Reappearance of Palestinian Identity from The Iron Cage, Chapter 2: The Palestinians and the British Mandate
Tuesday, October 9, 4:15-6:00 pm Dalton 212 A	The end of the Ottoman and other empires. Ignacio Gallup-Diaz and Marc Ross presiding	Suggested readings B.B. Doumani, "Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into History," Journal of Palestine Studies, 21 (1992): 5-28. S. Deringil, "The Invention of Tradition as Public Image in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808 to 1908," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 35 (1993): 3-29. E.-J. Zürcher, "Review: The Ottoman Twilight," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 27 (2000): 201-207 Optional readings: David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: the Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, 1990.
Post-lecture conversations for faculty and staff
October 25, 9:30-11:00 am, Ely Room, Wyndham	The Cold War Period, with Rashid Khalidi and Sharon Ullman	Suggested readings: Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War Melvyn P. Leffler, David S. Painter, eds., Origins of the Cold War, 2nd ed., chapters 1-2
November 1, 9:30-11:00 am, Ely Room, Wyndham	Oil, with Rashid Khalidi, Debi Harrold and Carola Hein	Suggested readings Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power; linked excerpts.
November 8, 9:30-11:00 am, Dalton 2	The Post Cold War Period, with Rashid Khalidi, Ignacio Gallup Diaz, Tamara Neuman, and Madhavi Kale	Suggested readings: Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America; Charles S. Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessor
Special Workshops
Wednesday, October 24, 2:00-4:00 pm Dalton 300	Archaeology and Nationalism A special workshop for invited faculty, staff and graduate students. Planned by Peter Magee, with Rashid Khalidi and Kamyar Abdi.	Suggested readings: Nadia Abu El-Haj, Facts on the Ground, Kamyar Abdi, "Nationalism, Politics, and the Development of Archaeology," American Journal of Archaeology 105/1 (2001): 51-76. ibid, forthcoming paper in the Journal of Social Archaeology on Iraqi nationalism, Saddam Hussein's cult of personality and ancient Mesopotamia
Wednesday, October 31, 4:00-6:00 pm Carpenter 25	Palestinian identity and the responsibilites of a public intellectual A special workshop for tri-co undergraduate students. Pre-registration required c/o mkelly01@brynmawr.edu. Hosted by the Center for International Studies and moderated by Marc Ross with Rashid Khalidi, Tamara Neuman, Isabelle Barker and others.	Suggested readings: Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, chapters 1 and 6. ibid, Palestinian Identity, Chapter 8: The "Disappearance" and Reappearance of Palestinian Identity
Wednesday, November 7, 12:00-2:00 pm Wyndham	The Future of Middle East Studies at our Colleges, by invitation	With Rashid Khalidi and for tri-co provosts, Middle East Studies faculty, members of CAP and Curriculum Committee, and their Haverford and Swarthmore counterparts

Items to be scheduled

About Rashid Khalidi:
Rashid Khalidi has written more than 75 articles on Middle East history and politics. He has also appeared as a NPR and PBS radio and TV programs and is the author of numerous op ed pieces and book reviews. A 1970 Yale University graduate, Professor Khalidi did his graduate work at Oxford University, receiving a D.Phil. in Modern History in 1974. His thesis title was “The Development of British Policy towards Syria and Arab Nationalism 1906-1914.” He taught in Beirut from 1974-1985. He was in Columbia's History department from 1985-1987, when he moved to the University of Chicago. He was at Chicago from 1987-2003, at which point he returned to Columbia University.

Professor Khalidi's major publications include:

British Policy towards Syria and Palestine 1906-1914: The An­tecedents of the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Agreements and the Balfour Declaration. St. Antony's College Middle East Monographs. London: Ithaca Press, 1980, 404 pp.

Palestine and the Gulf: Proceedings of an International Seminar. Edited by R. Khalidi and Camille Mansour. Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982, 332 pp.

Under Siege: P.L.O. Decision-making During the 1982 War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985, 241 pp. [Hebrew translation: Tel Aviv: Ma’rachot, 1988]

The Origins of Arab Nationalism. Edited by R. Khalidi, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih and Reeva Simon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991, 325 pp.

Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, 309 pp. [Co-winner, Middle East Studies Association 1997 Albert Hourani Book Award; French translation: Paris: La Fabrique, 2003; Italian translation: Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003; Spanish translation: Madrid: Marcial Pons Ediciones, 2007.]

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East Boston: Beacon Press, 2004, 223 pp. [Honorable Mention, Middle East Studies Association 2004 Albert Hourani Book Award; French translation: Arles: Actes Sud, 2004; Italian translation: Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2004; Spanish translation: Madrid: Libros de la Catarata, 2004; UK edition: I.B. Tauris, 2005; Arabic translation: Dar al-Adab, 2007].

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006, 281 pp. [UK edition: OneWorld, 2007; French translation: Arles: Actes Sud, 2007; Arabic translation: Amman: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2007.]