History & Politics
A historically grounded exploration of Palestine with Rashid Khalidi, centering Palestinian experience and examining how empire and colonial power shaped the modern conflict.
5 total
Module 1
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Dr. Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi opens the lecture series by setting a political-historical frame for Palestine. He foregrounds the role of international actors while keeping Palestinian history at the center.
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Dr. Rashid Khalidi
This lecture examines Britain's contradictory wartime and postwar commitments. It shows why promises to Arabs, Zionist policy, and shifting imperial power could not be reconciled.
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Dr. Rashid Khalidi
The Palestinian resistance movement is followed through major strategic shifts. The lecture compares the demand for liberation of all Palestine with the later move toward a two-state position.
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Dr. Rashid Khalidi
United States power is measured against the unresolved question of Palestinian refugees. The lecture asks what American diplomacy did, and what it refused to do, after 1948.
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Dr. Rashid Khalidi
The final short-course lecture returns to Palestine as an imperial project. It examines why British aims mattered before Zionism became attached to them.
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