AMP Mourns the Passing of Erudite Palestinian Scholar Walid Khalidi

At the ripe age of 100, Walid Khalidi passed this morning in Massachusetts. His work and legacy will live for generations to come. Dr. Khalidi began his scholarly journey at Oxford University in the early 1950s, went on to lecture at the American University of Beirut for decades, and then became a research fellow at Harvard.

But perhaps one of his greatest accomplishments is co-founding the Institute for Palestine Studies in 1963, ushering in an era of unprecedented scholarly writing on Palestine and the Palestinian people that has shaped academia globally and served as a recognition of Palestinian suffering.

No serious scholar of Palestinian history can pass without reading some of his 40 published books, including his seminal works on the Nakba, All That Remains, and Before Their Diaspora. These two works set the pace for the study of the Nakba in a methodological fashion, uncovering archives and history not written about before.

A towering scholar in every sense of the word, Walid Khalidi will be greatly missed and warmly remembered.