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:35286@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T200000 DTSTAMP:20251021T215313Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-edward-w-said-memorial-lecture- with-rashid-khalidi-this-is-not-war/ SUMMARY:The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture with Rashid Khalidi: This is No t War DESCRIPTION:NEW YORK\, NY\n\nAlthough registration is mandatory\, registrat ion does not guarantee admission as seating is limited.\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Re gistration is required\, but does not guarantee admission. There is a limi t of one (1) reservation per person\, and only those registered are eligib le to attend. Check-in begins at 5:30PM. Seating is limited and first come \, first served.\n\nRashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Mo dern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale Uni versity in 1970 and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974\, and has ta ught at the Lebanese University\, the American University of Beirut\, and the University of Chicago. He was President of the Middle East Studies Ass ociation\, and was co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He serve d as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993.\n\nKha lidi is the author of eight books\, 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 book s and has published over 120 academic articles. He has written op-eds in m any newspapers and has appeared widely on TV\, radio\, and podcasts in the US and abroad. He is currently working on a book on Britain\, Ireland\, a nd Palestine\, tentatively entitled “The First and the Last.”\n\nLisa Anderson (moderator) is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor E merita of International Relations at the Columbia University School of Int ernational and Public Affairs. Dr. Anderson served as Provost and then Pre sident of the American University in Cairo between 2008 and 2016. She is D ean Emerita of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia\ , where she led the school from 1997-2007. She was on the faculty of Colum bia since 1986\; she also taught at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilso n School and in the Government and Social Studies departments at Harvard U niversity. She is a trustee of the Aga Khan University and member emerita of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch\; she also served as Presi dent of the Middle East Studies Association\, and as Chair of the Board of the Social Science Research Council\n\nThe Edward W. Said Memorial Lectur e is given in honor of the public intellectual and literary critic\, Edwar d W. Said\, who taught in the English &\; Comparative Literature Depart ment at Columbia from 1963 until 2003. Professor Said was perhaps best kno wn for his books Orientalism\, published in 1978\, and Culture and Imperia lism\, published in 1993\, both of which made major contributions to the f ield of cultural and postcolonial studies. The Edward W. Said Memorial Lec ture\, organized by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Human ities\, pays tribute to Professor Said by bringing to Columbia speakers wh o embody his beliefs and the legacy of his work.\n\nJOIN WAITLIST 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