Professor Walid Khalidi, leading Palestinian historian, dies aged 100

Professor Walid Khalidi, one of the most important Palestinian historians of the modern era, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 8 March 2026 at the age of 100. Born in Jerusalem on 16 July 1925, he built a long and distinguished career as one of the foremost Palestinian scholars of his generation. Khalidi came from a prominent Jerusalem family of jurists, scholars, political figures and educators whose roots in the city stretched back centuries. That background shaped a life marked not only by scholarship, but by a strong sense of public duty and responsibility to Palestine. Khalidi studied at the University of London, where he received a BA in philosophy in 1945, and went on to Oxford, where he earned an […]