BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:34014@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250202T110000 DTSTAMP:20250127T043737Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-busboys-and-poets-sunday-school -cafe-with-rashid-khalidi/ SUMMARY:The Busboys and Poets Sunday School Cafe with Rashid Khalidi DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nWashington\, DC\n\nJoin us at Busboys and Poets' Sunday S chool Cafe for an engaging discussion on The Hundred Years' War on Palest ine with esteemed author Rashid Khalidi\, who will be joining us virtual ly. This in-person event will take place at our 14th &\; V location.\n\ nA landmark histor y of one hundred years of war waged against the Palesti nians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East\, told through piv otal events and family history\nIn 1899\, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi\, mayor of Jerusalem\, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine\, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He w arned of the perils ahead\, ending his note\, “in the name of God\, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi\, al-Khalidi’s great-gre at-nephew\, begins this sweeping history\, the first general account of th e conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.\n\nDrawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors\, judges\, scholars\, diplomats\, and journalists —The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict\, which tend\, at best\, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead\, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians\, waged first by the Zio nist movement and then Israel\, but backed by Britain and the United State s\, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this co lonial campaign\, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948\, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endles s and futile peace process.\n\nOriginal\, authoritative\, and important\, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization\, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the eme rgence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arr ayed against the Palestinians\, it offers an illuminating new view of a co nflict that continues to this day.\n\nStop by Busboys and Poets to get you r copy of the book today.\n\nRashid Khalidi’s most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. He is the author of Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (Beacon Press\, 2013) and six other books about the Middle East--Sowing Crisis\, The Iron Cage\ , Resurrecting Empire\, Origins of Arab Nationalism\, Under Siege\, and th e award-winning Palestinian Identity. He is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University and editor of the Journal of Palestine Stud ies. He has written more than eighty articles on Middle Eastern history an d politics\, including pieces in the New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, t he Los Angeles Times\, the Chicago Tribune\, and many journals. Professor Khalidi has received fellowships and grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, the Ford Foundation\, the Woodrow Wilson Intern ational Center for Scholars\, the American Research Center in Egypt\, and the Rockefeller Foundation\; he was also the recipient of a Fulbright rese arch award. Professor Khalidi has been a regular guest on numerous radio a nd TV shows\, including All Things Considered\, Talk of the Nation\, Morni ng Edition\, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, and Nightline.\n\nThe Sunday Schoo l Cafe is a weekly informal interactive learning community featuring auth ors\, activists\, artists\, filmmakers\, journalists\, and other change-ma kers to help us make sense of the world around us. Free and open to all.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 025/01/7FF91A79-1FB5-4742-9DD4-DB5A4664BC00.jpeg CATEGORIES:#arabic,Arab American,Community,culture,Discussion,Food LOCATION:Busboys and Poets\, 2021 14th St NW\, Washington\, DC\, United Sta tes GEO:38.91799200000001;-77.03186299999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2021 14th St NW\, Washingto n\, DC\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Busboys and Poets:geo:38 .91799200000001,-77.03186299999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR