The passing of Walid Khalidi on Sunday, March 8, 2026, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, marked the end of a century-long intellectual journey dedicated to documenting the Palestinian experience and safeguarding its historical memory.
For more than seven decades, Khalidi stood among the most influential historians of Palestine. His work fundamentally reshaped how Palestine was studied in Western academia and helped establish Palestinian historiography as a serious scholarly field. At a time when Palestinian voices were largely absent from academic discourse in Europe and the United States, Khalidi produced meticulous historical research that challenged dominant narratives surrounding the creation of Israel and the displacement of Palestinians. His scholarship was not simply academic. It was a long intellectual struggle to preserve the historical record of a people whose society had been violently fragmented. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/walid-al-khalidi-architect-of-modern-palestinian-historiography-dies-at-100/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41030): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41030 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118230741/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
