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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:

“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
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Involvement and Affiliations:
  • 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:
  • MLit, Oxford University, 1951
  • BA, University of London, 1945
Other:
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