Rashid Khalidi

Rashid Khalidi is a professor and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago and a frequent contributor to Tikkun, NPR and CNN. Khalidi is the president of the American Committee on Jerusalem and was an adviser to the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from 1991 to 1993. Among his books are The Origins of Arab Nationalism and Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness.