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Walid Khalidi, MLit Biography
- Title:
- General Secretary of the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS)
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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“A Palestinian state in the occupied territories within the 1967 frontiers in peaceful coexistence alongside Israel is the only conceptual candidate for a historical compromise of this century-old conflict. Without it the conflict will remain an open-ended one.”
“Toward Peace in the Holy Land,” Foreign Affairs, Spring 1988
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Member of Joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to the Middle East peace talks
- Senior research fellow, Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Co-founder, Royal Scientific Society in Amman
- Co-founder, Institute for Palestine Studies
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Taught at the University of Oxford, the American University of Beirut, and Harvard
- Awarded, The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization’s Prize of Distinction in Cultural Achievement in the Arab World, 2002
- Education:
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- MLit, Oxford University, 1951
- BA, University of London, 1945
- Other:
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- None found