Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. He is also the author of Under Siege: P. L.O. Decisionmaking During the 1982 War, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, and Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East, and coeditor of The Origins of Arab Nationalism.
One of the pre-eminent historians of Palestinian nationalism. * The Chronicle of Higher Education * A major contribution to historical Palestinian nationalism. * Foreign Affairs * An impressive, thoughtful, layered, and well-documented study. * Kirkus * Pathbreaking. * Library Journal *