Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, specializes in Middle Eastern history.  He received his B.A. from Yale (1970) and his D.Phil. from Oxford (1974).  His publications include: The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997), the co-winner of the Middle East Studies Association 1997 Albert Hourani Book Award; Under Siege: P.L.O. Decision-making during the 1982 War (1985); British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914: The Antecedents of the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Agreements and the Balfour declaration (1980); The Origins of Arab Nationalism (ed., 1991); and Palestine and the Gulf: Proceedings of an International Seminar (ed., 1982).  His works have been translated into French, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew.