#  Video: Book Talk: "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi 

 





October 30, 2020

 

 

     ![Cover of Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine](/sites/g/files/omnuum8216/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/rpl/files/rashid_khalidi_horizontal_book_cover.png?itok=DKU_mECL) 

 



 

 On October 15, Rashid Khalidii, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, discussed his book with Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History at Harvard. *The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017*, is a departure from his previous work as a historian. Writing for a public rather than scholarly audience, he draws on personal and familial experiences from across generations to argue that ongoing settler colonial violence is supplanting Palestinians and erasing their historical belonging to their land.

 He shared that the book is an attempt to turn the understanding of what has happened to Palestinians on its head by examining the ways settler colonialism has targeted Palestinian history and identity alongside physical presence. Framing the past seventy years as an episodic settler-colonial war on Palestine, Khalidi sees continued hope and presence of Palestinians despite their ongoing excision from archival records. As the nature of settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel continues to evolve over time, Khalidi’s work is an attempt to reclaim discursive power over Palestinian history.



 

 *This event was co-sponsored by the the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center and the Program in Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School.*



 

 

 



 

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