Walid Khalidi: Scholar of modern Palestine (opens in new tab)

"Why has Walid Khalidi’s name become inseparable from the history of modern Palestine? From documenting the 1948 Nakba village by village to building one of the most influential research institutions on Palestine, his work reshaped how the world records and remembers loss, displacement and identity. Khalidi died on 8 March, 2026 at the age of 100, but left behind a very rare legacy. A historian who started as a teenager under the British Mandate and grew into the world’s most authoritative...