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Pathbreakers of Arab America: Rashid Khalidi

October 11, 2023

By John Mason

This is the seventeenth in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Arab America contributing writer, John Mason, highlights our seventeenth pathbreaker, Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian-American and leading historian and analyst of the Middle East. Born in New York City, he is the son of Ismail Khalidi, a Saudi citizen of Palestinian birth in Jerusalem and his Lebanese-American mother. Khalidi is passionate about Palestine, where his distinguished family has deep roots in Jerusalem from Ottoman and British periods of rule. In this renewed time of war in the Middle East, Khalidi’s analyses are all the more important.

Middle East, North African Students Want University of Michigan Recognition

January 4, 2018

By Ani Karapetyan

SOURCE: MICHIGAN LIVE ANN ARBOR, MI – Middle Eastern and North African students at the University of Michigan are calling on the university’s administration and Board of Regents to recognize their identities on its forms and surveys that collect demographic data on campus. After receiving support from UM’s Literature, Science & the Arts Student Government earlier this fall calling on the university’s administration to add the Middle Eastern/North African (ME/NA) identity category to … Continued

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