Institute for Palestine Studies

Transformed Landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honor of Walid Khalidi

Edited by:	Camille Mansour, Leila Fawaz
Distributed in Beirut by:	Institute for Palestine Studies
Publisher(s):	American University of Cairo Press
ISBN:	978-977-416-247-3
Edition:	1^st ed.
Publication Date:	2009
Language:	English
Number of Pages:	365
Cover Type:	Hardcover
Price:	$ 29.95

Abstract

This collection of essays addresses, from varying perspectives, issues that have preoccupied Middle East scholars as well as twentieth-century Arab intellectuals: debates and struggles from the modern history of the Arab East that foreshadow those occurring today, the Ottoman legacy and its assessment over time, Palestinian Arab dynamics resulting from the cataclysm of the Palestine war, and their linkage with the everlasting imperial intervention. The volume is dedicated to Walid Khalidi, one of the most influential Palestinian intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century, whose impact has been felt in scholarship, institution building, and politics. The essays are written by an impressive group of internationally recognized scholars—friends, former students, and colleagues of Khalidi. Contributors: Butrus Abu-Manneh, Laurie A. Brand, Jamil Hilal, Michael C. Hudson, Rashid Khalidi, Philip S. Khoury, Wm. Roger Louis, Adel Manna, Camille Mansour, Issam Nassar, Abdul-Karim Rafeq, André Raymond, Eric Rouleau, Sara Roy, May Seikaly, Salim Tamari.

About the Author(s):

Camille MANSOUR is professor of international relations at the Universities of Paris and the Sorbonne, and founder and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Birzeit University in the West Bank. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Palestine Studies.

Leia FAWAZ is founding director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies and Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University.