Birth: 1/1/1925 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jerusalem in 1925; son of Ahmed Samih Al-Khalidi; graduated with a BA in Philosophy from London University in 1945 and with a MLit from Oxford University in 1951; worked at the Arab League office in Jerusalem under Musa Al-Alami in the late 1940s; taught Islamic Philosophy at Oxford University from 1951-56; resigned over Britain’s role in the attack on Egypt in 1956; went to Beirut to join the AUB, where he taught until 1982 (with interruptions when he was Visiting Professor at Princeton and Harvard Universities); co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) in Beirut in 1963; held ties with the ANM and later PFLP as well as with Fateh leaders; after the 1967 defeat, served as advisor to the Iraqi delegation at the UN; since 1976 associated with Harvard University and is since 1982 senior research associate of its Center for Middle East Studies; helped establishing the Royal Scientific Society in Amman and the Center for Arab Studies in Beirut; represented Palestine in an Arab League delegation, led by King Hussein, that met with PM Thatcher in London in March 1983 to reiterate the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people; was a member of the joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to the 1991 Middle East peace talks in Madrid and the subsequent two rounds of bilateral talks with Israel in Washington, DC; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; received the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization’s Prize of Distinction in Cultural Achievement in the Arab World in 2002; his publications include: From Haven to Conquest (Beirut, 1971), Before Their Diaspora (IPS, 1991), All that Remains (IPS, 1992), The Ownership of the U.S Embassy Site in Jerusalem (IPS, 2002), and The Prospects of Peace in the Middle East (Dar An-Nahar, 2002).
