Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world

Past Event
Seminar

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Join the Harvard Divinity School's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative  for a discussion with Professor Rashid Khalidi and Dr. Rosie Bsheer about Khalidi’s latest book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017.

Through a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members, the book upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.

This event is co-sponsored by the Future of Diplomacy Project  and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School.

Registration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gmRqkfD-RzGxVdDLTTH-Sw 

Date: Time: -
Rashid Kahlidi's book

ABOUT

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies in the department of History at Columbia University, and co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. Khalidi is the author of numerous award-winning books which have been translated into several languages and over 110 scholarly articles. His most recent book is The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 .

Rosie Bsheer is an historian of the modern Middle East and Assistant Professor of History at Harvard. Her teaching and research interests center on Arab intellectual and social movements, petro- capitalism and state formation, and the production of historical knowledge and commemorative spaces. She received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (2014) and comes to Harvard University from Yale University, where she was Assistant Professor of History (2014–2018). She is the recipient of the Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching at Yale University (2017) and Yale College’s Sarai Ribicoff ‘75 Award for the Encouragement of Teaching (2018).