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:35211@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T200000 DTSTAMP:20251008T040712Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-edward-w-said-memorial-lecture- this-is-not-war/ SUMMARY:The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture: This is Not War DESCRIPTION:NEW YORK\, NY\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Registration is required\, but do es not guarantee admission. There is a limit of one (1) reservation per pe rson\, and only those registered are eligible to attend. Check-in begins a t 5:30PM. Seating is limited and first come\, first served.\n\nRashid Khal idi is Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974\, and has taught at the Lebanese Universit y\, the American University of Beirut\, and the University of Chicago. He was President of the Middle East Studies Association\, and was co-editor o f the Journal of Palestine Studies. He served as an advisor to the Palest inian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiati ons from October 1991 until June 1993.\n\nKhalidi is the author of eight b ooks\, including the bestselling The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonialism and Resistance\, 1917-2017 (2020)\, and  Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness ( rev. ed. 2010). He has co-edited three other books and has published over 120 academic articles. He has written op-eds in many newspapers and has ap peared widely on TV\, radio\, and podcasts in the US and abroad. He is cur rently working on a book on Britain\, Ireland\, and Palestine\, tentativel y entitled “The First and the Last.”\n\nLisa Anderson (moderator) is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations at the Columbia University School of International and Public Af fairs. Dr. Anderson served as Provost and then President of the American U niversity in Cairo between 2008 and 2016. She is Dean Emerita of the Schoo l of International and Public Affairs at Columbia\, where she led the scho ol from 1997-2007. She was on the faculty of Columbia since 1986\; she als o taught at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and in the Gove rnment and Social Studies departments at Harvard University. She is a trus tee of the Aga Khan University and member emerita of the Board of Director s of Human Rights Watch\; she also served as President of the Middle East Studies Association\, and as Chair of the Board of the Social Science Rese arch Council\n\nThe Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture is given in honor of the public intellectual and literary critic\, Edward W. Said\, who taught in the English &\; Comparative Literature Department at Columbia from 1 963 until 2003. Professor Said was perhaps best known for his books Orien talism\, published in 1978\, and Culture and Imperialism\, published in 1993\, both of which made major contributions to the field of cultural and postcolonial studies. The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture\, organized by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities\, pays tribute to Professor Said by bringing to Columbia speakers who embody his beliefs and the legacy of his work. LOCATION:James Memorial Chapel\, 90 Claremont Avenue\, New York \, New York \, 10027\, United States GEO:40.811538;-73.96243 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=90 Claremont Avenue\, New Y ork \, New York \, 10027\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=James Memorial Chapel:geo:40.811538,-73.96243 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR