<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:large">Wellesley Arab Women and Wellesley SJP cordially invite you to join us for a lecture and book signing with Rashid Khalidi. He will be discussing his latest book </span><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap">Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East.
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-weight:normal">Please join us for a conversation with </span>Rashid Khalidi<span style="font-weight:normal">, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. </span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The discussion will focus on his new book, </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This event will take place in the Pendleton Atrium in Wellesley College on Thursday, April 11, 12:15-1:30</span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Lunch will be served)</span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rashid Khalidi received his BA from Yale in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1974. He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of: </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2009);</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2006); </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2004); </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (1996); </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (1986); </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (1980); and co-editor of </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Palestine and the Gulf </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(1982) and </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Origins of Arab Nationalism</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (1991)</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
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He teaches courses on Modern Middle Eastern History; The United States, the Middle East and the Cold War; Islamic Movements in the Modern Middle East; The Modern History of Palestine; and Nationalism in the Arab World.<br>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Exchange Bus picks up and drops off at the Chapel, Alumnae Hall, MIT Building N52 on Massachusetts Avenue, Building 34 on Vassar Street, Kendall T Stop on Main Street, Building E40 on Amherst Street, Building 44 on Vassar Street, 77 Massachusetts Avenue (the MIT Student Center), and at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston.</span></p>
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</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></p><br><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal"></span></font><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Please do not hesitate to contact <a href="mailto:msalhab@wellesley.edu" target="_blank">msalhab@wellesley.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:nazzouz@wellesley.edu">nazzouz@wellesley.edu</a> with questions or concerns. For disabilities assistance, please contact <a href="mailto:jwice@wellesley.edu" target="_blank">jwice@wellesley.edu</a></span></span></div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Nour Azzouz<br>Class of 2015<br>Wellesley College